Dual Use and Hospital Admissions among Veterans Enrolled in the VA's Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association between reliance on VA outpatient care and hospital admissions among Medicare-eligible Veterans enrolled in the Homeless Patient Aligned Care Team (H-PACT).

Data sources/study setting

Registry of H-PACT enrollees linked to VA and Medicare utilization data for 2013.

Study design

After assigning Veterans to two groups according to whether they received >90 percent of outpatient care in VA (higher reliance) or <90 percent of outpatient care in VA (lower reliance), generalized linear models with inverse probability of treatment weights were used to estimate the association of reliance with Medicare and VA-financed hospital admissions.

Principal findings

Compared with higher reliance Veterans, lower reliance Veterans had an equiv

SUBMITTER: Trivedi AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6235810 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature