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Use of Statins by Medicare Beneficiaries Post Myocardial Infarction: Poor Physician Quality or Patient-Centered Care?
Even though guidelines strongly recommend that patients receive a statin for secondary prevention after an acute myocardial infarction (MI), many elderly patients do not fill a statin prescription within 30 days of discharge. This paper assesses whether patterns of statin use by Medicare beneficiari...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5813626/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25724749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958015571131 |
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author | Schroeder, Mary C. Robinson, Jennifer G. Chapman, Cole G. Brooks, John M. |
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description | Even though guidelines strongly recommend that patients receive a statin for secondary prevention after an acute myocardial infarction (MI), many elderly patients do not fill a statin prescription within 30 days of discharge. This paper assesses whether patterns of statin use by Medicare beneficiaries post-discharge may be due to a mix of high-quality and low-quality physicians. Our data come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW) and include 100% of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction in 2008 or 2009. Our study sample included physicians treating at least 10 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries during their MI institutional stay. Physician-specific statin fill rates (the proportion of each physician’s patients with a statin within 30 days post-discharge) were calculated to assess physician quality. We hypothesized that if the observed statin rates reflected a mix of high-quality and low-quality physicians, then physician-specific statin fill rates should follow a u-shaped or bimodal distribution. In our sample, 62% of patients filled a statin prescription within 30 days of discharge. We found that the distribution of statin fill rates across physicians was normal, with no clear distinctions in physician quality. Physicians, especially cardiologists, with relatively younger and healthier patient populations had higher rates of statin use. Our results suggest that physicians were engaging in patient-centered care, tailoring treatments to patient characteristics. |
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spelling | pubmed-58136262018-02-21 Use of Statins by Medicare Beneficiaries Post Myocardial Infarction: Poor Physician Quality or Patient-Centered Care? Schroeder, Mary C. Robinson, Jennifer G. Chapman, Cole G. Brooks, John M. Inquiry Original Research Even though guidelines strongly recommend that patients receive a statin for secondary prevention after an acute myocardial infarction (MI), many elderly patients do not fill a statin prescription within 30 days of discharge. This paper assesses whether patterns of statin use by Medicare beneficiaries post-discharge may be due to a mix of high-quality and low-quality physicians. Our data come from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Chronic Condition Data Warehouse (CCW) and include 100% of Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for an acute myocardial infarction in 2008 or 2009. Our study sample included physicians treating at least 10 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries during their MI institutional stay. Physician-specific statin fill rates (the proportion of each physician’s patients with a statin within 30 days post-discharge) were calculated to assess physician quality. We hypothesized that if the observed statin rates reflected a mix of high-quality and low-quality physicians, then physician-specific statin fill rates should follow a u-shaped or bimodal distribution. In our sample, 62% of patients filled a statin prescription within 30 days of discharge. We found that the distribution of statin fill rates across physicians was normal, with no clear distinctions in physician quality. Physicians, especially cardiologists, with relatively younger and healthier patient populations had higher rates of statin use. Our results suggest that physicians were engaging in patient-centered care, tailoring treatments to patient characteristics. SAGE Publications 2015-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC5813626/ /pubmed/25724749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958015571131 Text en © The Author(s) 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Research Schroeder, Mary C. Robinson, Jennifer G. Chapman, Cole G. Brooks, John M. Use of Statins by Medicare Beneficiaries Post Myocardial Infarction: Poor Physician Quality or Patient-Centered Care? |
title | Use of Statins by Medicare Beneficiaries Post Myocardial Infarction: Poor Physician Quality or Patient-Centered Care? |
title_full | Use of Statins by Medicare Beneficiaries Post Myocardial Infarction: Poor Physician Quality or Patient-Centered Care? |
title_fullStr | Use of Statins by Medicare Beneficiaries Post Myocardial Infarction: Poor Physician Quality or Patient-Centered Care? |
title_full_unstemmed | Use of Statins by Medicare Beneficiaries Post Myocardial Infarction: Poor Physician Quality or Patient-Centered Care? |
title_short | Use of Statins by Medicare Beneficiaries Post Myocardial Infarction: Poor Physician Quality or Patient-Centered Care? |
title_sort | use of statins by medicare beneficiaries post myocardial infarction: poor physician quality or patient-centered care? |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5813626/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25724749 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0046958015571131 |
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