The Association of the First Surge of the COVID-19 Pandemic with the High- and Low-Value Outpatient Care Delivered to Adults in the USA.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The first surge of the COVID-19 pandemic entirely altered healthcare delivery. Whether this also altered the receipt of high- and low-value care is unknown.

Objective

To test the association between the April through June 2020 surge of COVID-19 and various high- and low-value care measures to determine how the delivery of care changed.

Design

Difference in differences analysis, examining the difference in quality measures between the April through June 2020 surge quarter and the January through March 2020 quarter with the same 2 quarters' difference the year prior.

Participants

Adults in the MarketScan® Commercial Database and Medicare Supplemental Database.

Main measures

Fifteen low-value and 16 high-value quality measures aggregated into 8 c

SUBMITTER: Levine DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9400559 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature