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- Document 0870
- DOCN M9620870
- TI Relationship between procedures and health insurance for critically ill
- patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia [see comments]
- DT 9602
- AU Horner RD; Bennett CL; Rodriguez D; Weinstein RA; Kessler HA; Dickinson
- GM; Johnson JL; Cohn SE; George WL; Gilman SC; et al; Division of Health
- Services Research, Durham Veterans; Administration Hospital, NC, USA.
- SO Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1995 Nov;152(5 Pt 1):1435-42. Unique
- Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/96048794
- CM Comment in: Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1995 Nov;152(t Pt 1):1433-4
- AB The objective of the present study was to assess the association between
- type of health insurance coverage and use of diagnostic tests and
- therapies among patients with AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii
- pneumonia (PCP). Fifty-six private, public, and community hospitals in
- Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami were selected for the study, and the
- charts of 890 patients with empirically treated or cytologically
- confirmed PCP, hospitalized during 1987 to 1990 were retrospectively
- reviewed. Patients were classified by insurance status: self-pay (n =
- 56), Medicaid (n = 254), or private insurance, including health
- maintenance organizations and Medicare (n = 580). Primary outcomes were
- the use and timing of bronchoscopy, the type and timing of PCP therapy,
- and in-hospital mortality. The results indicate that Medicaid patients
- were less likely than privately insured patients to undergo bronchoscopy
- (relative odds = 0.61; 95% CI = 0.40, 0.93; p = 0.02) or to have their
- diagnosis of PCP confirmed (relative odds = 0.51; 95% CI = 0.33, 0.77),
- after adjusting for patient, severity of illness, and hospital
- characteristics. Medicaid patients were approximately three-fourths more
- likely than privately insured patients (relative odds = 1.73; 95% CI =
- 1.01, 2.96; p = 0.04) to die in-hospital, after adjusting for patient,
- severity of illness, and hospital characteristics. However, with further
- adjustment for confirmation of PCP, Medicaid patients no longer had a
- significantly higher likelihood of dying in-hospital. We conclude that
- Medicaid patients are less likely to receive diagnostic bronchoscopy
- than privately insured or self-insured patients, more likely to be
- empirically treated for PCP, and more likely to die
- in-hospital.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
- DE Adult AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/*DIAGNOSIS/*ECONOMICS/
- MORTALITY/THERAPY Bronchoscopy/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA
- Chicago/EPIDEMIOLOGY Critical Illness Female Florida/EPIDEMIOLOGY
- Health Services Accessibility/*ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA
- Hospital Mortality Hospitalization/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA
- Human *HIV-1 *Insurance,
- Hospitalization/CLASSIFICATION/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA Los
- Angeles/EPIDEMIOLOGY Male Middle Age Outcome and Process Assessment
- (Health Care)/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA Pneumonia,
- Pneumocystis carinii/*DIAGNOSIS/*ECONOMICS/MORTALITY/ THERAPY Quality
- of Health Care/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA Retrospective Studies
- Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. JOURNAL
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- SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
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