Utilization Patterns and Mortality of HMO Enrollees
作者:
Bentson McFarland,
Donald Freeborn,
John Mullooly,
Clyde Pope,
期刊:
Medical Care
(OVID Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 24,
issue 3
页码: 200-208
ISSN:0025-7079
年代: 1986
出版商: OVID
关键词: HMO;health care utilization;mortality;utilization patterns
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Data from a 6-year follow-up period were used to analyze the mortality of adults who had been continuously enrolled in a prepaid group practice health maintenance organization (HMO) for the previous 7 years. Thirteen percent of the HMO members were classified as consistently high users of outpatient care. Even after adjustment for age, sex, and cigarette smoking, this high user group's mortality rates during the follow-up period were significantly greater than those of the other HMO enrollees. The HMO members as a whole had mortality rates marginally lower than the mortality of the general Oregon population. It can be concluded that HMO enrollees who consistently use high quantities of health care resources generally have significant medical problems in addition to psychosocial difficulties. Assuming that mortality reflects health, long-term HMO members as a group are not much healthier than ordinary Oregonians.
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