Out Of Reach: Inequities In The Use Of High-Quality Home Health Agencies.

ABSTRACT: Patients receiving home health services from high-quality home health agencies often experience fewer adverse outcomes (for example, hospitalizations) than patients receiving services from low-quality agencies. Using administrative data from 2016 and regression analysis, we examined individual- and neighborhood-level racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic factors associated with the use of high-quality home health agencies. We found that Black and Hispanic home health patients had a 2.2-percentage-point and a 2.5-percentage-point lower adjusted probability of high-quality agency use, respectively, compared with their White counterparts within the same neighborhoods. Low-income patients had a 1.2-percentage-point lower adjusted probability of high-quality agency use compared with their higher-in

SUBMITTER: Fashaw-Walters SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8883595 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature