Discharge Rates of Medicare Stroke Patients to Skilled Nursing Facilities: Bayesian Logistic Regression with Unobserved Heterogeneity
Medicare 脑卒中患者转入专业护理机构的比例:含未观测异质性的贝叶斯逻辑回归
We determine factors, both hospital-specific and market area-specific, associated with hospitals' propensities for discharging Medicare stroke patients to skilled nursing facilities (SNF's) in California and Florida. Logistic regression is generalized to the case of a betabinomial, hierarchical model, in which covariate information is included in the hyperparameters of the second-stage beta distribution. It is found that the posterior mean of the proportion discharged to SNF…