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Yuhua Bao1, Ashley A Eggman1, Joshua E Richardson1, Martha L Bruce1.
Abstract
Semistructured interviews with nurses working for home health care agencies in five states raise serious questions about the deleterious effects of Medicare policies and procedures on depression care. The agencies have strong incentives to limit nursing time in a given payment episode and to increase volume, making it difficult to provide high-quality depression care for homebound patients. Some nurses felt forced to "abandon" many patients with depression. The authors call for incremental policy changes in several key areas.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID: 24632686 PMCID: PMC4167154 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ps.201300158
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Psychiatr Serv ISSN: 1075-2730 Impact factor: 3.084