Open AccessSatisfaction With Quality of Health Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Functional Hearing Loss
Author(s) -
Nicholas Reed,
Emily F. Boss,
Frank R. Lin,
Esther S. Oh,
Amber Willink
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001419
Subject(s) - hearing loss , quality (philosophy) , health care , patient satisfaction , medline , medicine , family medicine , audiology , nursing , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law , economics , economic growth
Nearly 38 million Americans have hearing loss. Understanding how sensory deficits such as hearing loss, which limit communication, impact satisfaction has implications for Medicare value-based reimbursement mechanisms. The aim of this study was to characterize the association of functional hearing loss and dissatisfaction with quality of health care over the past year among Medicare beneficiaries.