Patient-Reported Care Coordination is Associated with Better Performance on Clinical Care Measures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Prior studies using aggregated data suggest that better care coordination is associated with higher performance on measures of clinical care process; it is unclear whether this relationship reflects care coordination activities of health plans or physician practices.

Objective

Estimate within-plan relationships between beneficiary-reported care coordination measures and HEDIS measures of clinical process for the same individuals.

Design

Mixed-effect regression models in cross-sectional data.

Participants

2013 Medicare Advantage CAHPS respondents (n=152,069) with care coordination items linked to independently collected HEDIS data on clinical processes.

Main measures

Care coordination measures assessed follow-up, whether doctors had medical rec

SUBMITTER: Elliott MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642573 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature