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Document 0870
DOCN M9620870
TI Relationship between procedures and health insurance for critically ill
patients with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia [see comments]
DT 9602
AU Horner RD; Bennett CL; Rodriguez D; Weinstein RA; Kessler HA; Dickinson
GM; Johnson JL; Cohn SE; George WL; Gilman SC; et al; Division of Health
Services Research, Durham Veterans; Administration Hospital, NC, USA.
SO Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 1995 Nov;152(5 Pt 1):1435-42. Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/96048794
CM Comment in: Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1995 Nov;152(t Pt 1):1433-4
AB The objective of the present study was to assess the association between
type of health insurance coverage and use of diagnostic tests and
therapies among patients with AIDS-related Pneumocystis carinii
pneumonia (PCP). Fifty-six private, public, and community hospitals in
Chicago, Los Angeles, and Miami were selected for the study, and the
charts of 890 patients with empirically treated or cytologically
confirmed PCP, hospitalized during 1987 to 1990 were retrospectively
reviewed. Patients were classified by insurance status: self-pay (n =
56), Medicaid (n = 254), or private insurance, including health
maintenance organizations and Medicare (n = 580). Primary outcomes were
the use and timing of bronchoscopy, the type and timing of PCP therapy,
and in-hospital mortality. The results indicate that Medicaid patients
were less likely than privately insured patients to undergo bronchoscopy
(relative odds = 0.61; 95% CI = 0.40, 0.93; p = 0.02) or to have their
diagnosis of PCP confirmed (relative odds = 0.51; 95% CI = 0.33, 0.77),
after adjusting for patient, severity of illness, and hospital
characteristics. Medicaid patients were approximately three-fourths more
likely than privately insured patients (relative odds = 1.73; 95% CI =
1.01, 2.96; p = 0.04) to die in-hospital, after adjusting for patient,
severity of illness, and hospital characteristics. However, with further
adjustment for confirmation of PCP, Medicaid patients no longer had a
significantly higher likelihood of dying in-hospital. We conclude that
Medicaid patients are less likely to receive diagnostic bronchoscopy
than privately insured or self-insured patients, more likely to be
empirically treated for PCP, and more likely to die
in-hospital.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
DE Adult AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections/*DIAGNOSIS/*ECONOMICS/
MORTALITY/THERAPY Bronchoscopy/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA
Chicago/EPIDEMIOLOGY Critical Illness Female Florida/EPIDEMIOLOGY
Health Services Accessibility/*ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA
Hospital Mortality Hospitalization/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA
Human *HIV-1 *Insurance,
Hospitalization/CLASSIFICATION/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA Los
Angeles/EPIDEMIOLOGY Male Middle Age Outcome and Process Assessment
(Health Care)/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA Pneumonia,
Pneumocystis carinii/*DIAGNOSIS/*ECONOMICS/MORTALITY/ THERAPY Quality
of Health Care/ECONOMICS/STATISTICS & NUMER DATA Retrospective Studies
Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. JOURNAL
ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).