People with epilepsy who use multiple hospitals; prevalence and associated factors assessed via a health information exchange.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Hospital crossover occurs when people seek care at multiple hospitals, creating information gaps for physicians at the time of care. Health information exchange (HIE) is technology that fills these gaps, by allowing otherwise unaffiliated physicians to share electronic medical information. However, the potential value of HIE is understudied, particularly for chronic neurologic conditions like epilepsy. We describe the prevalence and associated factors of hospital crossover among people with epilepsy, in order to understand the epidemiology of who may benefit from HIE.

Methods

We used a cross-sectional study design to examine the bivariate and multivariable association of demographics, comorbidity, and health service utilization variables with hospital crossover, am

SUBMITTER: Grinspan ZM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4037914 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature