Assessment of Year-to-Year Patient-Specific Comorbid Conditions Reported in the Medicare Chronic Conditions Data Warehouse

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Oct 1;3(10):e2018176. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.18176.

Authors

William B Weeks¹, Grace Huynh¹, Stacey Y Cao², Jeremy Smith³, James N Weinstein^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Microsoft Research, Microsoft, Redmond, Washington.
² CareJourney, Arlington, Virginia.
³ White River Junction VA Outcomes Group, White River Junction, Vermont.
⁴ The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
⁵ Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
⁶ Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study evaluates the persistence of chronic condition flags for 51 conditions over single-year and multiyear periods.

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Chronic Disease / trends*
Comorbidity / trends*
Data Warehousing / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Forecasting
Humans
Male
Medicare / statistics & numerical data*
Time Factors*
United States