Patient Outcomes After Hospital Discharge to Home With Home Health Care vs to a Skilled Nursing Facility.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Use of postacute care is common and costly in the United States, but there is significant uncertainty about whether the choice of postacute care setting matters. Understanding these tradeoffs is particularly important as new alternative payment models push patients toward lower-cost settings for care.

Objective

To investigate the association of patient outcomes and Medicare costs of discharge to home with home health care vs discharge to a skilled nursing facility.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective cohort study used Medicare claims data from short-term acute-care hospitals in the United States and skilled nursing facility and home health assessment data from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2016, on Medicare beneficiaries who were discharged

SUBMITTER: Werner RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6503560 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature