Systematic Review of Rural and Urban Differences in Care Provided by Home Health Agencies in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Home health care agencies (HHAs) are skilled care providers for Medicare home health beneficiaries in the United States. Rural HHAs face different challenges from their urban counterparts in delivering care (eg, longer distances to travel to patient homes leading to higher fuel/travel costs and fewer number of visits in a day, impacting the quality of home health care for rural beneficiaries). We review evidence on differences in care outcomes provided by urban and rural HHAs.

Design

Systematic review guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines and using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for quality appraisal.

Setting

Care provided by urban and rural HHAs.

Methods

We conducted a systematic search for Engl

SUBMITTER: Quigley DD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9880873 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature