Predicting Primary Care Use Among Patients in a Large Integrated Health System: The Role of Patient Experience Measures.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVE:Most Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System enrollees age 65+ also have the option of obtaining care through Medicare. Reliance upon VA varies widely and there is a need to optimize its prediction in an era of expanding choice for veterans to obtain care within or outside of VA. We examined whether survey-based patient-reported experiences improved prediction of VA reliance. METHODS:VA and Medicare claims in 2013 were linked to construct VA reliance (proportion of all face-to-face primary care visits), which was dichotomized (=1 if reliance >50%). We predicted reliance in 83,143 Medicare-eligible veterans as a function of 61 baseline characteristics in 2012 from claims and the 2012 Survey of Healthcare Experiences of Patients. We estimated predictive performance using the cross-validated area under the receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) curve, and assessed variable importance using the Shapley value decomposition. RESULTS:In 2012, 68.9% were mostly VA reliant. The AUROC for the model including claims-based predictors was 0.882. Adding patient experience variables increased AUROC to 0.890. The pseudo R for the full model was 0.400. Baseline reliance and patient experiences accounted for 72.0% and 11.1% of the explained variation in reliance. Patient experiences related to the accessibility of outpatient services were among the most influential predictors of reliance. CONCLUSION:The addition of patient experience variables slightly increased predictive performance. Understanding the relative importance of patient experience factors is critical for informing what VA reform efforts should be prioritized following the passage of the 2018 MISSION Act.

journal_name

Med Care

journal_title

Medical care

authors

Wong ES,Maciejewski ML,Hebert PL,Reddy A,Liu CF

doi

10.1097/MLR.0000000000001155

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-08-01 00:00:00

pages

608-614

issue

8

eissn

0025-7079

issn

1537-1948

pii

00005650-201908000-00006

journal_volume

57

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