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ArticleAdolescent health, medicine and therapeutics2018

An economic examination of private insurance claims among adolescents and young adults who were enrolled in hospice during the last year of life.

Jessica Keim-Malpass, Austin C Cohrs, Lisa C Lindley, Douglas L Leslie

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Jessica Keim-MalpassDepartment of Acute and Specialty Care, School of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, Jlk2t@virginia.edu.
Austin C CohrsDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.
Lisa C LindleyCollege of Nursing, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA.
Douglas L LeslieDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA.

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purposeThe purpose of this study was to generate baseline data on the health characteristics, health care utilization, and health care spending among privately insured adolescents and young adults (AYA), who were enrolled in hospice care during their last year of life.

methodsA retrospective, nonexperimental design was used to collect and analyze longitudinal claims data from the Truven Health MarketScan™ database. The sample included AYA (aged 15-24 years) who utilized hospice during their last year of life.

resultsTotally, 17,408 AYA were included in this analysis. Mean hospice length of stay (LOS) was low overall, but there was a statistically significant difference in hospice LOS in ages 15-19 years (mean 3.56, SD 15.17 days) compared with those aged 20-24 years (mean 2.26, SD 8.24;

conclusionsThis study provides preliminary data for private insurance expenditures and clinical utilization for AYA who were enrolled in hospice. This analysis also provides initial evidence to suggest extremely short hospice LOS for AYAs prior to the end of life and represents an area of future research need.

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adolescenteconomicend of lifehospiceprivate health insuranceyoung adult

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PMID30214370
PMCPMC6122891

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