Patterns of Collaboration among Health Care and Social Services Providers in Communities with Lower Health Care Utilization and Costs.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To understand how health care providers and social services providers coordinate their work in communities that achieve relatively low health care utilization and costs for older adults.

Study setting

Sixteen Hospital Service Areas (HSAs) in the United States.

Study design

We conducted a qualitative study of HSAs with performance in the top or bottom quartiles nationally across three key outcomes: ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations, all-cause risk-standardized readmission rates, and average reimbursements per Medicare beneficiary. We selected 10 higher performing HSAs and six lower performing HSAs for inclusion in the study.

Data collection

To understand patterns of collaboration in each community, we conducted site visits and in-depth intervi

SUBMITTER: Brewster AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6056597 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature