Advance Data Number 247, March 28, 1994. Characteristics of Elderly Home Health Patients: Preliminary Data from the 1992 National Home and Hospice Care Survey.

摘要

This report presents findings on home health service utilization by the elderly regardless of agency certification by Medicare or Medicaid, and regardless of patient funding source. The data presented are preliminary estimates from the 1992 National Home and Hospice Care Survey, the first annual survey of hospices, home health agencies, and their respective patients. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) instituted this nationwide sample survey in response to the rapid growth in the number of these agencies in the United States.