Publications by authors named "Christina X Fu"
Importance: Given the growth of home health agency (HHA) care, it is important to understand whether quality reporting programs, such as star ratings, are associated with improved patient outcomes.
Objective: To assess the immediate and long-term association of the introduction of HHA star ratings with patient-level quality outcomes, comparing claims-based and agency-reported measures.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This cross-sectional study used Medicare HHA claims and agency-reported assessments to identify sequential patient episodes (ie, spells) among US adults with traditional Medicare who received HHA care (2013-2019).
Objective: How the introduction of new pharmaceuticals affects spending for treatment of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is unknown. This study examined trends in use of pharmaceuticals and their costs among children with ADHD from 1996 to 2005.
Methods: This observational study used annual cohorts of children ages three to 17 with ADHD (N=107,486 unique individuals during the study period) from Florida Medicaid claims to examine ten-year trends in the predicted probability for medication use for children with ADHD with and without psychiatric comorbidities as well as mental health spending and its components.