Empirical-Based Typology of Health Care Utilization by Medicare Eligible Veterans.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:Up to 70 percent of patients who receive care through Veterans Health Administration (VHA) facilities also receive care from non-VA providers. Using applied classification techniques, this study sought to improve understanding of how elderly VA patients use VA services and complementary use of non-VA care. METHODS:The study included 1,721,900 veterans age 65 and older who were enrolled in VA and Medicare during 2013 with at least one VA encounter during 2013. Outpatient and inpatient encounters and medications received in VA were classified, and mutually exclusive patient subsets distinguished by patterns of VA service use were derived empirically using latent class analysis (LCA). Patient characteristics and complementary use of non-VA care were compared by patient subset. RESUL

SUBMITTER: Vaughan Sarrazin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6235816 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature