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Predicting Place of Death in the Program of All‐Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): Participant versus Program Characteristics by Helena Temkin‐Greener; Dana B. Mukamel is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Predicting Place of Death in the Program of All‐Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): Participant versus Program Characteristics about?
To assess the relationship between participant-specific and program-specific characteristics and the place of death in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE). DESIGN: A retrospective, population-based, cross-sectional study. SETTING: PACE is a community-based managed care model serving a frail, nursing home-eligible population of Medicare beneficiaries. PARTICIPANTS: Two thousand two hundred sixty-three PACE decedents from 12 sites that were fully capitated for Medicare and Medicaid by mid-1997. MEASUREMENTS: Participant-specific characteristics include the range of demographic, functional, and cognitive status; skilled care needs; medical conditions; and advance care directives measures. The PACE site-specific indicator was also included to assess the effect of program sites on place of death. Bivariate, logistic, and multinomial logit models were employed. RESULTS: The probability of death at home is twice as great (45%) for PACE program participants as for the general population of older Americans. Twenty-one percent of PACE participants die in hospitals, compared with 53% of Medicare beneficiaries. Participants who are older and live in the community have a si
Who reads Predicting Place of Death in the Program of All‐Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): Participant versus Program Characteristics?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Medicine.
- Author
- Helena Temkin‐Greener; Dana B. Mukamel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; The American Geriatrics Society; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0002-8614)
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)