External Determinants of Veterans’ Utilization of VA Health Care
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Home health care and patterns of subsequent VA and medicare health care utilization for veterans.
PURPOSE The Veterans Affairs or VA health care system is in the process of significantly expanding home health care (HHC) nationwide. We describe VA HHC use in 2003 for all VA HHC users from 2002; we examine whether VA utilization across a broad spectrum of services differed for a sample of VA HHC users and their propensity-score-matched controls. We also consider crossover between the VA and M...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Services Research
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0017-9124,1475-6773
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.13011