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| Race, gender and health care service utilization and costs among Medicare elderly with psychiatric diagnoses | | Author(s) | Baqar A Husaini, Darren E Sherkat, Robert Levine |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 14, no 1, February 2002 |
| Pages | pp 79-95 |
| Keywords | Mental disorder ; Diagnosis ; Ethnic groups ; Older men ; Older women ; Health services ; Usage [services] ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries from Tennessee (333,680) - of whom 5,339 had a psychiatric diagnosis - was employed to examine health care service use and costs by race and gender. African Americans had significantly higher rates of diagnosis for dementia, organic psychosis and schizophrenia; whereas Whites had significantly higher rates for mood and anxiety disorders. White and African American men have higher rates of use of emergency and inpatient services and lower rates of outpatient use, compared to White and African American women. African American men have significantly higher health care costs. These findings suggest that race and gender interact to influence service use and preventive care, thereby driving up costs of care for older people with psychiatric diagnoses. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020416239 A |
| Classmark | E: LK7: TK: BC: BD: L: QLD: 7T |
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