National Medical Expenditure Survey. Home Health Care: Use, Expenditures, and Sources of Payment. Research Findings 15

摘要

Data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey (NMES) were used to produce national estimates of the use and sources of payment for the noninstitutionalized civilian population. Home health care is defined as home visits from a physician, nurse, therapist, or other paid health care provider who changed bandages, gave oral medications or injections or any other medical or nursing treatment, and/or provided personal assistance with basic or instrumental activities of daily living. Estimates are provided by selected demographic characteristics and by functional status for persons using any home health care during the year, for the number of home health visits per person with visits, and for the average number of home health personnel providing services to each user.