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    Title: Impact of a home health care program for disabled patients in Taiwan: A nationwide population-based cohort study
    Authors: Lee, YH;Lu, CW;Huang, CT;Chang, HH;Yang, KC;Kuo, CS;Chang, YK;Hsu, CC;Huang, KC
    Contributors: Institute of Population Health Sciences
    Abstract: The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of home health care (HHC) for disabled patients.We conducted a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study. A total of 5838 disabled patients with HHC were identified to match by propensity score with 15,829 disabled patients without HHC receiving tube or catheter care (tracheostomy tube, nasogastric tube, urinary catheter, cystostomy tube, nephrostomy tube) or stage 3 or 4 pressure sore care from the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Research Database between 2005 and 2009. After 1:1 matching, 2901 subjects in the HHC group and 2901 subjects in the non-HHC group were selected and analyzed. Generalized estimating equations (GEEs) were used to compare the risk of health outcomes (rate of hospitalization and emergency services use) and the healthcare expenditure between the 2 groups.Compared to those in the non-HHC group, the patients in the HHC group had significantly higher risk for hospitalization (odds ratio [OR] = 18.43, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 15.62-21.75, P < .001) and emergency services use (OR = 3.72, 95% CI: 3.32-4.17, P < .001) 1 year before the index date. However, 1 year after the index date, the risk for hospitalization (OR = 1.6, 95% CI: 1.41-1.83, P < .001) and emergency services use (OR = 1.16, 95% CI: 1.04-1.30, P < .05) attenuated significantly. Regarding the comparison of total healthcare expenditure 1 year before and after the index date, our study showed an insignificant decrease of US$1.5 per person per day and a significant increase of US$5.2 per person per day (P < .001) in the HHC and non-HHC groups, respectively.The HHC for disabled patients has a potential role to reduce hospitalization and emergency services use. Besides, the improvement of healthcare quality through HHC was not accompanied by increased healthcare expenditure. The clinical impact of HHC emphasizes the importance for public health officials to promote HHC model to meet the needs of disabled patients.
    Date: 2019-02
    Relation: Medicine. 2019 Feb;98(7):Article number e14502.
    Link to: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000014502
    JIF/Ranking 2023: http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=NHRI&SrcApp=NHRI_IR&KeyISSN=0025-7974&DestApp=IC2JCR
    Cited Times(WOS): https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000462389000055
    Cited Times(Scopus): https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85061598643
    Appears in Collections:[Chih-Cheng Hsu] Periodical Articles
    [Kuo-Chin Huang] Periodical Articles

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