Comparison of methods to identify long term care nursing home residence with administrative data

• Main Authors: James S. Goodwin (Author), Shuang Li (Author), Jie Zhou (Author), James E. Graham (Author), Amol Karmarkar (Author), Kenneth Ottenbacher (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background To compare different methods for identifying a long term care (LTC) nursing home stay, distinct from stays in skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), to the method currently used by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). We used national and Texas Medicare claims, Minimu...