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| Courtney H Van HoutvenSummaryAffiliation: Duke University Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Informal care and health care use of older adultsCourtney Harold Van Houtven
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, The Durham Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, 508 Fulton Street, Durham, NC 27705 3897, USA
J Health Econ 23:1159-80. 2004..Instrumental variables (IV) estimation controls for the simultaneity of informal and formal care. Informal care reduces home health care use and delays nursing home entry...
Do Nurse-Led Skill Training Interventions Affect Informal Caregivers' Out-of-Pocket Expenditures?Courtney Harold Van Houtven
Center of Excellence in Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham VA, 508 Fulton Street, Durham, NC 27705
Gerontologist 53:60-70. 2013..The aim of this paper is to understand whether participating in ASSIST significantly changed the out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for family caregivers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) or Parkinson's disease (PD) patients...
The effect of informal care on work and wagesCourtney Harold Van Houtven
Durham Veterans Administration Medical Center, USA
J Health Econ 32:240-52. 2013..These estimates suggest that the opportunity costs to informal care providers are important to consider when making policy recommendations about the design and funding of public long-term care programs...- An organizing framework for informal caregiver interventions: detailing caregiving activities and caregiver and care recipient outcomes to optimize evaluation effortsCourtney Harold Van Houtven
Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, NC, USA
BMC Geriatr 11:77. 2011..In so doing, we characterize what has been measured in the published literature to date and what should be measured in future studies to enable comparisons across interventions and across time... - Economic burden for informal caregivers of lung and colorectal cancer patientsCourtney Harold Van Houtven
Building 16 HSRD, VAMC, 508 Fulton Street 558 152, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Oncologist 15:883-93. 2010..This study quantified the economic burden for informal caregivers of lung cancer (LC) and colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, examining differences by cancer type, phase of disease, stage at diagnosis, patient age, and relationship... - Informal and formal care infrastructure and perceived need for caregiver training for frail US veterans referred to home and community-based servicesCourtney Harold Van Houtven
Center of Excellence in Health Services Research and Development in Primary Care, Veterans Administration, Durham VAMC, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Chronic Illn 6:57-66. 2010.... - Is a home-care network necessary to access the Medicare hospice benefit?Courtney Harold Van Houtven
Center for Health Services Research and Development in Primary Care, VA Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA
J Palliat Med 12:687-94. 2009..To test whether the presence of an informal or formal care network in the home leads to different hospice utilization patterns near death. To examine how the informal care relationship affects hospice use patterns... - Home health care and patterns of subsequent VA and medicare health care utilization for veteransCourtney Harold Van Houtven
Health Services Research and Development in Primary Care, Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
Gerontologist 48:668-78. 2008..We also consider crossover between the VA and Medicare... - Informal care and Medicare expenditures: testing for heterogeneous treatment effectsCourtney Harold Van Houtven
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
J Health Econ 27:134-56. 2008..We find that children are less effective caregivers among recipients who are married. For single elderly, child caregivers are more effective than other types. Gender of a child caregiver does not matter... - Perceived discrimination and reported delay of pharmacy prescriptions and medical testsCourtney Harold Van Houtven
Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:578-83. 2005..Access to health care varies according to a person's race and ethnicity. Delaying treatment is one measure of access with important health consequences... - Home and community-based waivers for disabled adults: program versus selection effectsCourtney Harold Van Houtven
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA
Inquiry 42:43-59. 2005.... - What length of hospice use maximizes reduction in medical expenditures near death in the US Medicare program?Donald H Taylor
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University Durham, Durham, NC, USA
Soc Sci Med 65:1466-78. 2007..Given the length of hospice use observed in the Medicare program, increasing the length of hospice use for 7 in 10 Medicare hospice users would increase savings... - Caregiver psychological distress as a barrier to influenza vaccination among community-dwelling elderly with dementiaJoshua M Thorpe
Duke University School of Nursing, Trent Drive, DUMC 3322, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Med Care 44:713-21. 2006..A secondary aim was to determine whether psychologic distress mediates the relationship between other predisposing, enabling, and medical need variables and vaccination...
Research Grants
- Informal Care of Older Adults and Medicare ExpendituresCOURTNEY VAN HOUTVEN; Fiscal Year: 2003..abstract_text> ..