2014 jhu international acg user

PREDICTING HEALTHCARE COSTS IN VENETO REGION WITH ACG SYSTEM: VALIDATION AND COMPARISON OF DIAGNOSIS-BASED AND DRUG-BASED MORBIDITY GROUPS IN A NORTHERN ITALIAN POPULATION 

F. Avossa, ¹, M.C. Corti, ² , E. Schievano1, C. Abrams, ³ , N. Alba,  ⁴ , S. Elvini, ⁵ , P. Gallina,  ⁵, C. Rampazzo ⁵, R. Marchi,  ⁴, M. Saugo¹, E. Boscolo², D. Scibetta,  ⁵, C. Bovo ⁴ , D. Mantoan²; 

¹SER-Epidemiological Department, Veneto Region; 

²Health Care and Resource Planning Unit, Veneto Region; 

³Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; 

⁴Local Health Unit N. 20 Verona; 

⁵Local Health Unit N. 16 Padova