Low Rates of Preventive Healthcare Service Utilization Among Adolescents and Adults With Down Syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

People with Down syndrome have health risks that require specific lifelong preventive health care. With increasing life expectancy, people with Down syndrome also face health conditions typical of their unaffected peers and thus need coordinated health care. The purpose of this study is to describe rates of age/sex- and Down syndrome-specific preventive healthcare activities among adolescents and adults with Down syndrome.

Methods

Using Medicaid claims (2006-2010) in California, Colorado, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, the cohort was defined as people with Down syndrome aged ≥12 years seen by primary care providers and enrolled in Medicaid for ≥45 of 60 months without dual Medicare enrollment (n=3,501). Age focus-consistent primary care providers were defined as ha

SUBMITTER: Jensen KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7750281 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature