Receipt of Eye Care Services among Medicare Beneficiaries with and without Dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine the relationship between dementia status and receipt of eye care among US Medicare beneficiaries.

Design

Retrospective, claims-based analysis.

Participants

A 20% representative sample of Medicare beneficiaries who received care between January 1, 2006, and December 31, 2015.

Methods

Dementia was identified from diagnosis codes documented in a beneficiary's first 3 years of observed Medicare enrollment. Eye care visits were identified from provider specialty codes on each encounter claim. We used multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression models with time-varying covariates to compare the likelihood of receiving eye care between beneficiaries with and without dementia. All models were adjusted for potential confounders, including demogr

SUBMITTER: Pershing S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7384939 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature