HMP Global September 8, 2022
Researchers recently found that veteran patients in the Veteran Affairs (VA) Home-Based Primary Care (HBPC) program had increased emergency department (ED) visits and ambulatory care sensitive condition (ACSC) hospitalizations.
According to the study team, VA HBPC “provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary primary care at home to patients with complex, chronic, disabling disease, but little is known about care fragmentation patterns and consequences among these patients.”
In order to examine outpatient care fragmentation patterns and subsequent acute care among HBPC-engaged patients at high risk of hospitalization or death, the researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study. It included VA patients 65 years of age and older who met the following criteria:
- were enrolled in the VA and Medicare;
- whose risk of hospitalization or...
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