Effects of post-hospital Medicare home health and informal care on patient functional status

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Home Care Services 72%
• Medicare 71%
• Patient Care 53%
• Delivery of Health Care 42%
• Information Storage and Retrieval 18%
• Health Expenditures 14%
• Subacute Care 10%
• Least-Squares Analysis 7%
• Hip Fractures 7%
• Health 6%
• Telephone 6%
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 6%
• Caregivers 5%
• Medical Records 5%
• Hip 5%
• Heart Failure 5%
• Stroke 4%
• Interviews 4%
• Demography 4%
• Therapeutics 1%

Social Sciences

• home health care 100%
• hospital discharge 33%
• home health patient 24%
• expenditures 20%
• functional impairment 16%
• heart disease 14%
• Medical records 13%
• stroke 13%
• restoration 11%
• home care 11%
• telephone 10%
• caregiver 9%
• illness 9%
• regression 7%
• health 5%
• interview 4%