Parkinson’s Disease and Home Healthcare Use and Expenditures among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries
Joint Authors
Bhattacharjee, Sandipan
Metzger, Aaron
Tworek, Cindy
Wei, Wenhui
Pan, Xiaoyun
Sambamoorthi, Usha
Source
Issue
Vol. 2015, Issue 2015 (31 Dec. 2015), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2015-05-24
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This study estimated excess home healthcare use and expenditures among elderly Medicare beneficiaries (age ≥ 65 years) with Parkinson’s disease (PD) compared to those without PD and analyzed the extent to which predisposing, enabling, need factors, personal health choice, and external environment contribute to the excess home healthcare use and expenditures among individuals with PD.
A retrospective, observational, cohort study design using Medicare 5% sample claims for years 2006-2007 was used for this study.
Logistic regressions and Ordinary Least Squares regressions were used to assess the association of PD with home health use and expenditures, respectively.
Postregression nonlinear and linear decomposition techniques were used to understand the extent to which differences in home healthcare use and expenditures among elderly Medicare beneficiaries with and without PD can be explained by individual-level factors.
Elderly Medicare beneficiaries with PD had higher home health use and expenditures compared to those without PD.
27.5% and 18% of the gap in home health use and expenditures, respectively, were explained by differences in characteristics between the PD and no PD groups.
A large portion of the differences in home healthcare use and expenditures remained unexplained.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Bhattacharjee, Sandipan& Metzger, Aaron& Tworek, Cindy& Wei, Wenhui& Pan, Xiaoyun& Sambamoorthi, Usha. 2015. Parkinson’s Disease and Home Healthcare Use and Expenditures among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries. Parkinson’s Disease،Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1075902
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Bhattacharjee, Sandipan…[et al.]. Parkinson’s Disease and Home Healthcare Use and Expenditures among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries. Parkinson’s Disease No. 2015 (2015), pp.1-11.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Bhattacharjee, Sandipan& Metzger, Aaron& Tworek, Cindy& Wei, Wenhui& Pan, Xiaoyun& Sambamoorthi, Usha. Parkinson’s Disease and Home Healthcare Use and Expenditures among Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries. Parkinson’s Disease. 2015. Vol. 2015, no. 2015, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1075902
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1075902