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ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2018

Meal Delivery Programs Reduce The Use Of Costly Health Care In Dually Eligible Medicare And Medicaid Beneficiaries.

Seth A Berkowitz, Jean Terranova, Caterina Hill, Toyin Ajayi, Todd Linsky, Lori W Tishler, Darren A DeWalt

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Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 132 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04649853 unknown statusnot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Wound Care and Pressure Injury Through the Continuum of Care

TypeobservationalSponsorRegional Medical Center of San JoseRan2020 to 2021Enrolled352ConditionsWound, Pressure InjuryArmsStandardized nursing care
NCT04959487 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2021, after this paper: background citation

Food is Medicine: Randomized Trial of Medically-Tailored Food Support for Diabetes Health

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of California, San FranciscoRan2021 to 2025Enrolled281ConditionsType 2 Diabetes, Food InsecurityArmsFood support, Nutritional Counseling and education
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Seth A BerkowitzSeth A. Berkowitz ( seth_berkowitz@med.unc.edu ) is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During the time of the study, he was an assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, in Boston.
Jean TerranovaJean Terranova is director of food and health policy at Community Servings, in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.
Caterina HillCaterina Hill is director of research and evaluation at Commonwealth Care Alliance, in Boston.
Toyin AjayiToyin Ajayi is chief health officer of Sidewalk Labs Care Lab, in New York City.
Todd LinskyTodd Linsky is senior business intelligence informatics analyst at Commonwealth Care Alliance.
Lori W TishlerLori W. Tishler is vice president of medical affairs at Commonwealth Care Alliance.
Darren A DeWaltDarren A. DeWalt is the John Randolph and Helen Barnes Chambliss Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Funding

Understanding & Overcoming Food Insecurity in Diabetes PatientsK23DK109200 · NIDDK · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BERKOWITZ, SETH A · 2016 to 2020
$973k
NIDDK NIH HHS K23 DK109200NIDDK NIH HHS L30 DK103291
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Delivering food to nutritionally vulnerable patients is important for addressing these patients' social determinants of health. However, it is not known whether food delivery programs can reduce the use of costly health services and decrease medical spending among these patients. We sought to determine whether home delivery of either medically tailored meals or nontailored food reduces the use of selected health care services and medical spending in a sample of adults dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid. Compared with matched nonparticipants, participants had fewer emergency department visits in both the medically tailored meal program and the nontailored food program. Participants in the medically tailored meal program also had fewer inpatient admissions and lower medical spending. Participation in the nontailored food program was not associated with fewer inpatient admissions but was associated with lower medical spending. These findings suggest the potential for meal delivery programs to reduce the use of costly health care and decrease spending for vulnerable patients.

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MedicaidMedicareAgedEmergency Service, HospitalFemaleFood ServicesHealth ExpendituresHospitalizationHumansMaleMiddle AgedPatient Acceptance of Health CareUnited StatesCost of Health CareDeterminants Of HealthDisparitiesFinancing Health CareMedicaid

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PMID29608345
PMCPMC6324546

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