Kuo, Chang-Fu Burns, Patricia B Chen, Jung-Sheng Wang, Lu Chung, Kevin C
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Joint bone spine
The purpose of the study is to investigate the risk of preventable hospitalization among patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We identified 11,852 incident RA patients and 59,260 age-, sex-, and index year-matched controls from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Database. Index date was the RA diagnosis date for cases, which was assigned to t...
Gupta, Neeru Crouse, Dan L. Balram, Adele
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundMarked disparities by socioeconomic status in the risk of potentially avoidable hospitalization for chronic illnesses have been observed in many contexts, including those with universal health coverage. Less well known is how gender mediates such differences. We conducted a population-based cohort study to describe associations between ho...
Cho, Hoyune E. Wang, Lu Chen, Jung-Sheng Liu, Mochuan Kuo, Chang-Fu Chung, Kevin C.
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundSocial disparities in healthcare persist in the US despite the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. We investigated the causal impact of socioeconomic status on the quality of care in a setting with minimal confounding bias from race, insurance type, and access to care.MethodsWe designed a retrospective population-based st...
Tseng, Chin-Lin Soroka, Orysya Pogach, Leonard M
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Journal of diabetes and its complications
To expand the existing United States Agency for Health Research and Quality (AHRQ) Diabetes composite (AHRQ-DC) to include additional preventable hospitalizations specific or relevant to diabetes. A cross-sectional analysis of 834,696 veteran patients with diabetes aged ≥65 years in 2012. An Expanded Diabetes Composite (Expanded-DC) was developed u...
L. Reed, Richard Isherwood, Linda Ben-Tovim, David
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundIncreasing demand for hospital services by older people is a major concern for Australian health care providers. To date there has been little in-depth research that encompasses contextual and systems factors contributing to hospital admissions. The objective of this study was to determine the reasons why older patients experienced unplan...
Leung, Kit Sang Parks, Joe Topolski, James
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Preventive medicine reports
We aim to examine the relationships between substance use disorders and preventable hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions among adult Medicaid beneficiaries. Cross-sectional analysis using de-identified Medicaid claims data in 2012 from 177,568 beneficiaries in Missouri was conducted. Logistic regression models were estimated fo...
Park, Jungwon Lee, Keon-Hyung
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundThe intent of adopting managed care plans is to improve access to health care services while containing costs. To date, there have been a number of studies that examine the relationship between managed care and access to health care. However, the results from previous studies have been inconsistent. Specifically, previous studies did not ...
Rosano, Aldo Peschel, Peter Kugler, Joachim Ricciardi, Walter Guasticchi, Gabriella van der Zee, Jouke
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Journal of Public Health
AimThe aim of the study is to compare the hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) in Italy and Germany and to discuss possible relationships to the different models of primary-care supply.Subjects and methodsInformation on hospital discharges from 2001 to 2008 in Italy and from 2000 to 2008 in Germany was used. A descri...
Cahoon, Elizabeth Khaykin McGinty, Emma E Ford, Daniel E Daumit, Gail L
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BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundPersons with schizophrenia may face barriers to high quality primary care due to communication difficulties, cognitive impairment, lack of social support, and fragmentation of healthcare delivery services. As a result, this group may be at high risk for ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) hospitalizations, defined as hospitalizations potentia...
Basu, Jayasree Friedman, Bernard Burstin, Helen
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Health services research
Our analysis suggests that the preventable hospitalization pattern for private HMO enrollees differs significantly from that for commercial FFS enrollees. However, little difference is found between Medicaid HMO enrollees and Medicaid FFS patients. The findings did not vary by the level of Medicaid managed care penetration in the study states.
