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19882490

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2009-11-2
pubmed:abstractText
In this study, we assessed the longitudinal effect of a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patient-centered Care Coordination Home Telehealth (CCHT) program on preventable hospitalization use by veterans with diabetes mellitus (DM) at four VA medical centers. We used a matched treatment-control design (n = 387 for both groups). All patients were followed for 4 years. We operationalized ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) by applying Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality criteria to VA inpatient databases to determine preventable hospitalization use. We used a generalized linear mixed model to estimate the adjusted effect of the CCHT program on preventable hospitalization use over time. During the initial 18 months of follow-up, CCHT enrollees were less likely to be admitted for a preventable hospitalization than their nonenrollee counterparts, and this difference diminished during the rest of the 4-year follow-up period. The VA CCHT program for DM patients reduced preventable hospitalizations. These findings are some of the first that have systematically examined the extent to which home telehealth programs have a long-term effect on preventable hospitalization use.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1938-1352
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
46
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
557-66
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2009
pubmed:articleTitle
Long-term effect of home telehealth services on preventable hospitalization use.
pubmed:affiliation
VA Rehabilitation Outcomes Research Center (151B), 1601 SW Archer Road, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA. Huanguang.Jia@va.gov
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Multicenter Study