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Healthcare Utilization and Costs in Managed Care Patients with Alzheimer's Disease During the Last Few Years of Life by Wayne C. McCormick; James Hardy; Walter A. Kukull; James D. Bowen; Linda Teri; Sally Zitzer; Eric B. Larson is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Healthcare Utilization and Costs in Managed Care Patients with Alzheimer's Disease During the Last Few Years of Life about?
**OBJECTIVES:** To learn whether managed care patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) are more or less costly to care for than patients with other forms of dementia or patients without dementia during the last few years of life. **DESIGN:** Case control study. **SETTING:** A health maintenance organization base population. **PARTICIPANTS:** Three groups of subjects (mean age 85) who were deceased members of a dementia registry obtained from a health maintenance organization base population: 263 subjects with clinically diagnosed probable AD, 133 subjects with other forms of dementia, and 100 cognitively intact controls. **MEASUREMENTS:** Utilization records were examined for the 3 years preceding death. **RESULTS:** In all subcategories and in aggregate, utilization and costs of care were either similar or lower for patients with AD than for the other groups, even after controlling for age, gender, and comorbidity. **CONCLUSIONS:** Persons with AD do not incur higher costs than persons with other types of dementia or age‐matched persons without dementia in a mature health maintenance organization during the last few years of life, when utilization is likely to be highest.
Who reads Healthcare Utilization and Costs in Managed Care Patients with Alzheimer's Disease During the Last Few Years of Life?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Medicine.
- Author
- Wayne C. McCormick; James Hardy; Walter A. Kukull; James D. Bowen; Linda Teri; Sally Zitzer; Eric B. Larson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; The American Geriatrics Society; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0002-8614)
- Published
- 2001
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)