Accountable Care Organizations and Preventable Hospitalizations Among Patients With Depression.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Accountable care organizations have been successful in improving quality of care, but little is known about who is benefiting from accountable care organizations and through what mechanism. This study examined variation of potentially preventable hospitalizations for chronic conditions with coexisting depression in adults by hospital accountable care organization affiliation and care coordination strategies by race/ethnicity.

Methods

Data files of 11 states from 2015 State Inpatient Databases were used to identify potentially preventable hospitalizations for chronic conditions with coexisting depression by race/ethnicity; the 2015 American Hospital Association's Annual Survey was used to identify hospital accountable care organization affiliation; and American H

SUBMITTER: Barath D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7458155 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature