Analysing access to nursing home care |
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| Authors: | Anna L. Howe Colleen Phillips George A. N. Preston |
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| Affiliation: | 1. McMaster University, Department of Economics, 1280 Main Street West, Kenneth Taylor Hall Room 426, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4M4;2. University of Victoria, Department of Economics, Business and Economics Building, Room 360, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, V8P 5C2;3. McMaster University, School of Nursing, Health Sciences Centre, 2J20, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1;4. McMaster University, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence & Impact, McMaster University Medical Centre, 1280 Main Street West, 2C Area, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4K1;5. Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources, McMaster University, Department of Economics, 1280 Main Street West, Kenneth Taylor Hall Room 426, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4M4 |
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| Abstract: | The aim of this study is to investigate access to nursing home care in selected regions of Australia, Canada and the United States, and to examine the common ways in which nursing homes are used. Firstly, a review of methodological considerations in measuring access to nursing home care is made. Secondly, patient turnover patterns are interpreted with a view to showing differences in nursing home use among the countries studied; aggregate turnover rates, length of stay and outcomes are compared. Thirdly, groups of patients who differ in demographic and morbidity characteristics and in their use of nursing homes are discussed. Finally a number of distributive implications of these results are raised and a framework is outlined for considering redistributive consequences of changes in the use of nursing homes. It is concluded that the rate of flow of patients through nursing homes is as important a determinant of access to nursing home care as the level of bed provision and that adoption of this dynamic view of access indicates considerable scope for redistributing use of resources within the nursing home systems of all three countries. |
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| Keywords: | nursing home care alternative care residents turnover |
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