Items for "Geriatrics"

Markov Chain Modelling for Geriatric Patient Care

OBJECTIVES: To show that Markov chain modelling can be applied to data on geriatric patients and use these models to assess the effects of covariates. METHODS: Phase-type distributions were fitted by maximum likelihood to data on times spent by the patients in hospital and in community-based care...

Keywords: Geriatrics, Markov chains, maximum likelihood estimates, probability.