Abstract:
OBJECTIVE:The literature suggests that Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO) patients may have poorer outcomes with formal home-health care than do fee-for-service (FFS) patients, but it is unclear whether this is related to case-mix or quality. Our objective was to compare the home-health care outcomes for HMO and FFS Medicare patients after hospitalization for stroke, COPD, CHF, hip replacement, or hip fracture with fixation or replacement while controlling for site of discharge and other patient characteristics. DESIGN:Patients were identified before hospital discharge with data collected at that time and then prospectively for 1 year. SETTING:Nineteen acute general hospitals in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. PATIENTS:All Medicare patients in the above hospitals identified predischarge with stroke, COPD, CHF, hip replacement, or hip fracture with fixation or replacement. MEASURES: OUTCOME:weighted ADL scale and hospital readmission. Independent factors: site of discharge, HMO status, comorbidity, severity, and demographic factors. RESULTS:A total of 970 subjects were studied, 211 of whom were discharged to home-care. HMO patients were more likely to be discharged to a nursing home than to home-care after controlling for other factors (OR = 1.7; P = .015). After controlling for site of discharge and patient characteristics through either propensity scores or regression analysis, there was no statistically significant difference in ADL function at 6 weeks or at 6 months between HMO and FFS patients. Nor was there was a statistically significant difference in hospital readmission rates at 6 weeks and 6 months between HMO and FFS home-care patients. CONCLUSIONS:The outcomes of Medicare HMO patients discharged to home-care are not worse than those of FFS patients.
journal_name
J Am Geriatr Socjournal_title
Journal of the American Geriatrics Societyauthors
Holtzman J,Chen Q,Kane Rdoi
10.1111/j.1532-5415.1998.tb01083.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-05-01 00:00:00pages
629-34issue
5eissn
0002-8614issn
1532-5415journal_volume
46pub_type
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb02634.x
更新日期:2000-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
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更新日期:2009-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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更新日期:1983-09-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1995-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1981.tb01272.x
更新日期:1981-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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更新日期:1991-06-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1996-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1992.tb01831.x
更新日期:1992-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
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doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1979.tb06060.x
更新日期:1979-08-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2001-02-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50164.x
更新日期:2002-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1986.tb03985.x
更新日期:1986-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1990.tb02398.x
更新日期:1990-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2017-06-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03413.x
更新日期:2011-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1993.tb06694.x
更新日期:1993-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03768.x
更新日期:2012-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/jgs.13440
更新日期:2015-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1997.tb05965.x
更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00