Population
Roughly 3 million Medicare enrollees who received over 160 million home health care visits in 1993 across…
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Medicare home health may prioritize chronic support over post-discharge care; challenges substitution for hospital services and leaves optimal targeting open.
Medicare home health care is primarily used for long-term care rather than facilitating hospital discharge, with no evidence that it substitutes for hospital services.
Welch et al. (1996) studied this question.
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