Continuity of care and hospitalization frequency for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions after hearing-disability onset: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: We assessed the effect of continuity of care (COC) on the frequency of hospitalization for Ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) to estimate the impact of COC and hearing disability relative to the controls. This retrospective cohort study used claim data of Korean National Health Insurance Service - National Sample Cohort 2.0 DB. We used propensity score matching to determine a control group for the hearing disability group by age, sex, and the Charlson Comorbidity Index. The hearing-impaired group included 720 participants, and the non-disabled control group, consisting of individuals without any form of disability, had 1,423 individuals. We used the frequency of hospitalization for ACSCs during one-year follow-up as the dependent variable for Poisson regression. We measured COC w

SUBMITTER: Piao Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11456612 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature