Utilization and Referral Patterns for Home Health Services:
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Home Health Care Services Quarterly
- Vol. 5 (1) , 89-106
- https://doi.org/10.1300/j027v05n01_07
Abstract
This paper presents and discusses utilization and referral patterns for home health services in Mississippi. The universe of agencies delivering services in an eleven (11) county sample area is surveyed for patient demographic characteristics, modes of referral to home care and diagnostic characteristics. Comparisons are made of diagnoses of the 65 and over population utilizing home health services and a sample of hospital discharges in that same age group. A home health diagnostic index is derived and used in a home health "needs" determination formula.Keywords
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