Influence of health-related quality of life on health service utilization in addition to socio-demographic and morbidity variables among primary care patients in China

Tianhui Chen and Lu Li ()

International Journal of Public Health, 2009, vol. 54, issue 5, 325-332

Abstract: Health service utilization increased significantly with decreasing HRQOL, and the independent influence of HRQOL on health service utilization was smaller than that of socio-demographic and morbidity variables among primary care patients in mainland China. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel/Switzerland 2009

Keywords: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL); SF-36; Association; Clustered regression model; Health service utilization; Consultation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-009-0057-3

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