Traditional Measures of Hospital Utilization

AUTHORS Evan Fieldston, MD, MBA, MSHP1,2,3,4,5, Meera Ragavan, BSE, BA2, Bhuvaneswari Jayaraman, MPH2, Joshua Metlay, MD, PhD5,6, Susmita Pati, MD, MPH5,7 1Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2Division of General Pediatrics, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 3PolicyLab, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 4Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 5Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 6Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 7Division of Primary Care Pediatrics, State University of New York at Stony Brook and Stony Brook Long Island Children’s Hospital, Stony Brook, New York