Home Health Care Use and Post-Discharge Outcomes After Heart Failure Hospitalizations.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study compared the characteristics of Medicare beneficiaries who were hospitalized for heart failure (HF) and then discharged home who received home health care (HHC) to the characteristics of those who did not, and examined associations among HHC and readmission and mortality rates.

Background

After hospitalization for HF, some patients receive HHC. However, the use of HHC over time, the factors associated with its use, and the post-discharge outcomes after receiving it are not well studied.

Methods

This study used Get With The Guidelines-HF data, merged with Medicare fee-for-service claims. Propensity score matching and Cox proportional hazards models were used to evaluate the associations between HHC and post-discharge outcomes.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Sterling MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8538886 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature