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Differences in hospitalizations, emergency room admissions, and outpatient visits among Mexican-American Medicare beneficiaries.

Brian DownerSoham Al SnihLin-Na ChouYong-Fang KuoKyriakos S MarkidesKenneth J Ottenbacher
Published in: BMC geriatrics (2019)
We observed high healthcare utilization among Mexican-American Medicare beneficiaries. Forty percent of all hospitalizations were for circulatory and respiratory conditions with hospitalizations for heart failure and pneumonia being the most common. Older age, gender, education, language, and mortality were all associated with healthcare utilization. Continued research is needed to identify patterns and clusters of social determinants and health characteristics associated with healthcare utilization and outcomes in older Mexican-Americans.
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