Setting Eligibility Criteria for a Care-Coordination Benefit

Setting eligibility criteria for a care-coordination benefit.

OBJECTIVES To examine different clinically relevant eligibility criteria sets to determine how they differ in numbers and characteristics of individuals served. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of the 2000 wave of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative longitudinal health interview survey of adults aged 50 and older. SETTING Population-based cohort of community-dw...

Multi-Criteria Risk-Benefit Analysis of Health Care Management

Abstract Purpose of this paper: The objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) approach to evaluate the most suitable RFID-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. Design/methodology/approach: R...

Long-Term Care Eligibility Criteria for People with Alzheimer's Disease

Long-term care (LTC) eligibility criteria are applied to a sample of 8,437 people with dementia enrolled in the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration. The authors find that mental-status-test cutoff points substantially affect the pool of potential beneficiaries. Functional criteria alone leave out people with relatively severe dementia and with behavioral problems. It is therefore importa...

Medical-eligibility criteria for contraceptive use.

multi-criteria risk-benefit analysis of health care management

abstract purpose of this paper: the objectives of this paper are two folds: (1) utilizing hierarchical fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (topsis) approach to evaluate the most suitable rfid-based systems decision, and (2) to highlight key risks and benefits of radio frequency identification technology in healthcare industry. design/methodology/approach: resear...