Determining the impact of specialized care on health outcomes and health care utilization in Parkinsonism.

Health care outcomes Interdisciplinary care Models of care Movement disorders Parkinson disease Parkinsonism

Journal

Parkinsonism & related disorders
ISSN: 1873-5126
Titre abrégé: Parkinsonism Relat Disord
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9513583

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Feb 2024
Historique:
received: 11 08 2023
revised: 11 01 2024
accepted: 01 02 2024
medline: 19 2 2024
pubmed: 19 2 2024
entrez: 18 2 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Although care of Parkinsonism (PKM) is assumed to be optimally provided by movement disorder neurologists within an interdisciplinary clinic model, there is a paucity of published data to support this. To investigate the impact of movement disorder neurologist care of individuals with Parkinsonism (PKM). A retrospective exposure design was adopted using administrative data. Incident PKM individuals were identified in billing claims. A nine-year exposure period to movement disorder neurologist, general neurologist and non-neurologist care was calculated based on the billing codes. Regression models were used to test the association of provider exposure on time to death and long-term care (LTC) admission. Linear models were used to test varying provider exposure and hospital admissions, hospital days and emergency department visits. 1914 incident individuals were identified. There was no difference in PKM mortality, emergency visits, hospital admissions, or hospital days between providers, however exposure to general neurology and non-neurology care was associated with a significantly higher risk of admission to LTC compared to movement disorder neurologist care (HR 1.43; 95% CI 1.09-1.87 for general neurology (p-value = 0.0089); HR 1.61; 95% CI 1.25-2.05 for non-neurology (p-value = 0.0002), respectively. Movement disorder neurologist care is associated with a lower risk of admission to LTC over general neurologist care in individuals with PKM.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Although care of Parkinsonism (PKM) is assumed to be optimally provided by movement disorder neurologists within an interdisciplinary clinic model, there is a paucity of published data to support this.
OBJECTIVES OBJECTIVE
To investigate the impact of movement disorder neurologist care of individuals with Parkinsonism (PKM).
METHODS METHODS
A retrospective exposure design was adopted using administrative data. Incident PKM individuals were identified in billing claims. A nine-year exposure period to movement disorder neurologist, general neurologist and non-neurologist care was calculated based on the billing codes. Regression models were used to test the association of provider exposure on time to death and long-term care (LTC) admission. Linear models were used to test varying provider exposure and hospital admissions, hospital days and emergency department visits.
RESULTS RESULTS
1914 incident individuals were identified. There was no difference in PKM mortality, emergency visits, hospital admissions, or hospital days between providers, however exposure to general neurology and non-neurology care was associated with a significantly higher risk of admission to LTC compared to movement disorder neurologist care (HR 1.43; 95% CI 1.09-1.87 for general neurology (p-value = 0.0089); HR 1.61; 95% CI 1.25-2.05 for non-neurology (p-value = 0.0002), respectively.
CONCLUSION CONCLUSIONS
Movement disorder neurologist care is associated with a lower risk of admission to LTC over general neurologist care in individuals with PKM.

Identifiants

pubmed: 38369425
pii: S1353-8020(24)00038-5
doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2024.106026
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doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

106026

Informations de copyright

Crown Copyright © 2024. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of competing interest The author group has no competing interest in regard to this manuscript. No AI was used during the creation of this submission. Financial disclosures are individually listed in each author's declaration. There is no conflict of interest relating to those mentioned that pertain to the content within this submission.

Auteurs

Conrad J Goerz (CJ)

Section of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Anish Kanungo (A)

Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Canada.

Lisa M Lix (LM)

Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada.

William D Leslie (WD)

Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Charles Burchill (C)

Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, University of Manitoba, Canada.

Douglas E Hobson (DE)

Section of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Manitoba, Canada. Electronic address: douglas.hobson@umanitoba.ca.

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