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Racial and ethnic disparities in the outcomes of elderly home care recipients
Author(s)	Angela G Brega, Glenn K Goodrich, Martha C Powell
Journal title	Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 24, no 3, 2005
Publisher	Haworth Press, 2005
Pages	pp 1-23
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Ethnic groups ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Home nursing ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	The purpose of this study was to examine racial/ethnic disparities in functional outcomes of older home health care recipients. Analyses were conducted using Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) data for a nationally representative sample of home health care episodes for patients aged 65 and older. Risk-adjusted regression analyses examined the association between race/ethnicity and functional outcomes. Fourteen outcome measures reflected improvement in specific functional areas and two reflected overall functional change. Non-Hispanic Whites ("Whites") experienced substantially better functional outcomes than did home health care recipients of other backgrounds. The disparity in outcomes was most pronounced between Whites and African Americans. (KJ/RH).
Accession Number	CPA-060913207 A
Classmark	TK: N3: N4: 3F: 7T
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