Open AccessAmbulatory Care Fragmentation and Subsequent Hospitalization
Author(s) -
Lisa M. Kern,
Joanna Bryan Ringel,
Mangala Rajan,
Lisandro D. Colantonio,
Lawrence P. Casalino,
Laura C. Pinheiro,
Evgeniya Reshetnyak,
Monika M. Safford
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.0000000000001470
Subject(s) - ambulatory , medicine , hazard ratio , confidence interval , ambulatory care , psychosocial , confounding , emergency medicine , proportional hazards model , health care , demography , psychiatry , sociology , economics , economic growth
Previous studies have suggested that highly fragmented ambulatory care increases the risk of subsequent hospitalization, but those studies used claims only and were not able to adjust for many clinical potential confounders.