TY - JOUR AU - Moineddin, Rahim AU - Nie, Jason X. AU - Wang, Li AU - Tracy, C. Shawn AU - Upshur, Ross EG PY - 2010 DA - 2010/11/09 TI - Measuring change in health status of older adults at the population level: The transition probability model JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 306 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - The current demographic transition will lead to increasing demands on health services. However, debate exists as to the role age plays relative to co-morbidity in terms of health services utilization. While age has been identified as a critical factor in health services utilization, health services utilization is not simply an outcome of ill health, nor is it an inevitable outcome of aging. Most data on health service utilization studies assess utilization at one point in time, and does not examine transitions in health service utilization. We sought to measure health services utilization and to investigate patterns in the transition of levels of utilization and outcomes associated with different levels of utilization. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-306 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-10-306 ID - Moineddin2010 ER -