Use of health care services according to functional performance in community-dwelling older adults in Spain. An approach using GAMLSS models.

Autor: Mateo-Abad M; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biodonostia, Grupo de Atención Primaria, Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, España.; Red de Investigación en Cronicidad, Atención Primaria y Promoción de la Salud (RICAPPS), Salamanca, España.; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Marbella, España., Vrotsou K; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biodonostia, Grupo de Atención Primaria, Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, España.; Red de Investigación en Cronicidad, Atención Primaria y Promoción de la Salud (RICAPPS), Salamanca, España.; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Marbella, España., Padilla Ruiz M; Red de Investigación en Cronicidad, Atención Primaria y Promoción de la Salud (RICAPPS), Salamanca, España.; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Marbella, España.; Unidad de Investigación, Agencia Sanitaria Costa del Sol, Marbella, Málaga, España., Montiel-Luque A; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Marbella, España.; Centro de Salud San Miguel, Distrito Sanitario Costa del Sol, Torremolinos, Málaga, España., Saucedo Figueredo MDC; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Marbella, España.; Centro de Salud Los Boliches, Distrito Sanitario Costa del Sol, Fuengirola, Málaga, España., Machón M; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biodonostia, Grupo de Atención Primaria, Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, España.; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Marbella, España., Rivas Ruiz F; Red de Investigación en Cronicidad, Atención Primaria y Promoción de la Salud (RICAPPS), Salamanca, España.; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Marbella, España.; Unidad de Investigación, Agencia Sanitaria Costa del Sol, Marbella, Málaga, España., Vergara I; Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Biodonostia, Grupo de Atención Primaria, Donostia-San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, España.; Red de Investigación en Cronicidad, Atención Primaria y Promoción de la Salud (RICAPPS), Salamanca, España.; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Marbella, España.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2022 Nov 17; Vol. 17 (11), pp. e0277681. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Nov 17 (Print Publication: 2022).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277681
Abstrakt: Functional performance in older adults is a predictor of survival and other health outcomes and its measurement is highly recommended in primary care settings. Functional performance and frailty are closely related concepts, and frailty status is associated with the use of health care services. However, there is insufficient evidence on the utilization of services profile according to the functional performance of older adults. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between functional performance and the use of a wide range of health services in community-dwelling older adults. Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape were used to study these complex data of services utilization, from primary to hospital care. A total of 749 participants from two Spanish regions were followed up for 2 years. Of those, 276 (37%) presented low functional performance and 473 (63%) normal performance according to the Timed Up and Go test. The results showed that even after adjusting for burden of comorbidity and polypharmacy, participants with low functional performance used primary and secondary care health services more intensively, visited emergency rooms more often, and were hospitalized more frequently and for longer periods of time. A negative binomial distribution and a variant thereof were found to be the best models to describe health service utilization data. In conclusion, functionality should be considered as an important health indicator for tailoring the provision of health services for older adults.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist
(Copyright: © 2022 Mateo-Abad et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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