Specialty care after transition to long-term care in nursing home.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nursing home residents face many barriers to accessing specialist physician outpatient care. However, little data exists on how specialty care use changes when individuals transition to a nursing home in the US.

Methods

We studied specialist outpatient visits for new long-term care (LTC) residents within 1 year before and after their transition to nursing home residence using the Minimum Data Set v3.0 (MDS) and a 20% sample of Medicare fee-for-service claims in 2014-2018. To focus on residents requiring specialty care at baseline, we limited the cohort to residents with specialty care in the 13-24 months before LTC transition. We then measured the proportion of residents receiving at least one visit in the 12 months before the transition and the 12 months after th

SUBMITTER: Ulyte A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10089934 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature