The impact of long-term care on primary care doctor consultations for people over 75 years.

ABSTRACT: Many countries are adopting policies to create greater coordination and integration between acute and long-term care services. This policy is predicated on the assumption that these service areas have interdependent outcomes for patients. In this paper, we study the interdependencies between the long-term (home care) services and consultations with a primary care doctor, as used by people over 75 years. Starting with a model of individual's demand for doctor consultations, given supply, we formalize the hypothesis that exogenous increases to home care supply will reduce the number of consultations where these services are technical substitutes. Furthermore, greater coordination of public service planning and use of pooled budgets could lead to better outcomes because planners can account f

SUBMITTER: Forder J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6438947 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature