Healthcare utilization in the first year after pediatric traumatic brain injury in an insured population.
J Head Trauma Rehabil
; 28(6): 426-32, 2013.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To compare the healthcare use by children with and without a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the year following injury to understand whether children access primary care.PARTICIPANTS:
Children 0 to 15 years with a TBI (N = 545) and (N = 2310) uninjured age and sex-matched comparisons.SETTING:
A full benefits healthcare plan from 2000 to 2007. MAINMEASURES:
Mean annual healthcare utilization.RESULTS:
Children with TBI had higher mean annual outpatient visits (4.2 vs. 3.5, P = .001), but similar mean annual general pediatric visits (2.7 vs. 2.8, P = .3) than comparison children. More cases than comparisons attended a general pediatric visit (80.0% vs. 73.3%, risk ratio = 1.1, 95% CI 1.0-1.1). However, approximately 50% of children older than 7 years who had an intracranial injury did not attend a general pediatric visit and those were slightly more likely to receive specialty care (adjusted risk ratio = 1.1, 95% CI 1.0-1.2). These children did not appear to be substituting specialty for primary care.CONCLUSIONS:
Children with a full benefits insurance plan do not access primary care routinely after TBI. These findings present a challenge for designing a system to screen children after TBI.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Atenção Primária à Saúde
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Lesões Encefálicas
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Serviços de Saúde da Criança
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Incidence_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Child
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Child, preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Head Trauma Rehabil
Assunto da revista:
REABILITACAO
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TRAUMATOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article