Utilization and quality of primary and specialized palliative homecare in nursing home residents vs. community dwellers: a claims data analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are hardly any data on the extent to which nursing home residents are provided with palliative homecare. We want to add evidence by comparing nursing home residents (who had been living in a nursing home for at least one year) and nursing-care-dependent community dwellers in terms of utilization and quality of palliative homecare.

Methods

We conducted a population-based study with nationwide claims data from deceased beneficiaries of a large German health insurance provider. First, we compared utilization rates of primary palliative care [PPC], specialized palliative homecare [SPHC], and no palliative care [noPC] between nursing home residents and community dwellers, both descriptively and adjusted for covariates. Second, we analyzed the (adjusted) relations

SUBMITTER: Poeck J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11706154 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature