Demographic Table


R
(N=35)
U
(N=81)
P-value
Age
Mean (SD) 78.5 (5.26) 79.0 (7.39) 0.656
Median [Min, Max] 79.0 [68.0, 96.0] 79.0 [63.0, 97.0]
Missing 0 (0%) 1 (1.2%)
Sex
Female 2 (5.7%) 8 (9.9%) 0.696
Male 33 (94.3%) 72 (88.9%)
Missing 0 (0%) 1 (1.2%)
Race
Black or African American 1 (2.9%) 4 (4.9%) 0.341
Declined to answer 3 (8.6%) 3 (3.7%)
White 31 (88.6%) 66 (81.5%)
Asian 0 (0%) 4 (4.9%)
Native Islander 0 (0%) 3 (3.7%)
Missing 0 (0%) 1 (1.2%)
Ethnicity
Declined to answer 3 (8.6%) 1 (1.2%) 0.16
Not Hispanic or Latino 32 (91.4%) 78 (96.3%)
Missing 0 (0%) 2 (2.5%)
CAN
Mean (SD) 77.2 (19.5) 81.0 (14.0) 0.313
Median [Min, Max] 85.0 [25.0, 99.0] 85.0 [40.0, 99.0]
Missing 2 (5.7%) 1 (1.2%)
ACSC
Mean (SD) 60.2 (28.1) 71.7 (21.9) 0.0605
Median [Min, Max] 64.0 [0, 99.0] 77.5 [0, 99.0]
Missing 7 (20.0%) 17 (21.0%)
JFI
Mean (SD) 4.71 (2.17) 5.32 (2.05) 0.272
Median [Min, Max] 4.00 [0, 10.0] 5.00 [2.00, 11.0]
Missing 14 (40.0%) 18 (22.2%)
Overall
(N=116)
Age
Mean (SD) 78.8 (6.79)
Median [Min, Max] 79.0 [63.0, 97.0]
Missing 1 (0.9%)
Sex
Female 10 (8.6%)
Male 105 (90.5%)
Missing 1 (0.9%)
Race
Asian 4 (3.4%)
Black or African American 5 (4.3%)
Declined to answer 6 (5.2%)
Native Islander 3 (2.6%)
White 97 (83.6%)
Missing 1 (0.9%)
Ethnicity
Declined to answer 4 (3.4%)
Not Hispanic or Latino 110 (94.8%)
Missing 2 (1.7%)
CAN
Mean (SD) 79.8 (15.8)
Median [Min, Max] 85.0 [25.0, 99.0]
Missing 3 (2.6%)
ACSC
Mean (SD) 68.2 (24.4)
Median [Min, Max] 75.0 [0, 99.0]
Missing 24 (20.7%)
JFI
Mean (SD) 5.17 (2.09)
Median [Min, Max] 5.00 [0, 11.0]
Missing 32 (27.6%)



JFI buckets




Recommendations summaries



Bucket Mean SD Total Max
Total recommendations 4.28 3.30 497 17
Mobility rehab 0.63 0.75 73 3
All DME 0.18 0.47 21 2
Speech rehab 0.18 0.39 21 1
Medications 1.03 1.81 119 16
Social work 0.31 0.64 36 3





Percentage of people treated for each treatment type


Treatment Percentage treated
O.PTConsult 37.9
O.OTConsult 18.1
O.HomeHealthConsult 6.9
O.Exercise 28.4
N.SpeechTherapy 5.2
N.Audiology 12.1
N.BlindRehab 0.9
N.PsychiatryPsychology 19.8
N.AddictionHealth 0.9
N.PainTreatment 2.6
N.DME 3.4
D.PharmacyConsult 21.6
D.DME 4.3
S.SocialSupportServices 24.1
S.CaregiverSupport 5.2
DiabeticTasks 2.6
PhysicalActivity 0.9
Other 0.9
Weights 0.0
BloodPressureorHR 0.0
Diet 0.9
D-MedAdded 55.2
D-MedIncreaseDose 8.6
D-MedStop 25.9
D-MedDecreaseDose 12.9
SelfManageAddTask 1.7
SelfManageIncreaseFreq 0.0
SelfManageStopTask 0.9
SelfManageDecreaseTask 0.9
LabsAdded 37.1
RadiologyAdded 25.0
OtherDiagnosticAdded 0.9
LabsStopped 0.0
RadiologyStopped 0.0
OtherDiagnosticStopped 0.0
ProcedureAdded 0.0
ConsultAdded 11.2
OtherPorCAdded 0.0
ProcedureStopped 0.0
ConsultStopped 0.0
OtherPorCStopped 0.0
O.ADLTools 3.4
O.LifeAlerts 5.2
O.DME 5.2
O.OtherDME 4.3
S.ReferraltoHBPC 0.9
S.CommunityBasedResources 2.6
S.VABenefits 2.6
S.AdvancedDirectives 6.0
S.DigitalDivide 1.7
S.HHHA 4.3
S.Respite 0.0
S.AdultDayHealth 8.6
S.CNH 0.0
S.Travel 0.9
S.POLST.LST 3.4
ReferraltoGeriPACT 1.7
ReferraltoHBPC 0.9
Diagnostic.Studies 0.0
TabletConsultPlaced 0.0
TechConsultPlaced 0.0
SelfManagementChange 0.0
Procedures/Consults 0.0



Percentage of people treated by bucket


Treatment Percentage treated
TotalRecs 90.5
MobilityRehab 49.1
AllDME 14.7
SpeechRehab 18.1
Meds 49.1
SocialWork 22.4


Recommendations vs. CAN



Correlation = -0.154, 95% CI = (-0.328, 0.031), p = 0.10




Total recommendations = 16 -> 7 labs added, 3 meds added
Total recommendations = 14 -> 3 labs added, 1 med added
Total recommendations = 13 -> 2 labs added, 2 meds added, 2 meds dropped





Correlation for rural group = -0.366, 95% CI = (-0.630, -0.0259), p = 0.04


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.146, 95% CI = (-0.354, 0.076), p = 0.19



Mobility rehab vs. CAN



Correlation for rural group = 0.083, 95% CI = (-0.267, 0.415), p = 0.64


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.022, 95% CI = (-0.241, 0.197), p = 0.84



DME vs. CAN



Correlation for rural group = -0.008, 95% CI = (-0.350, 0.336), p = 0.96


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.293, 95% CI = (-0.481, -0.078), p = 0.008



Speech rehab vs. CAN



Correlation for rural group = -0.131, 95% CI = (-0.454, 0.222), p = 0.47


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.084, 95% CI = (-0.298, 0.138), p = 0.46



Medications vs. CAN



Correlation for rural group = -0.033, 95% CI = (-0.372, 0.313), p = 0.86


Correlation for non-rural group = 0.108, 95% CI = (-0.114, 0.320), p = 0.34



Social work vs. CAN



Correlation for rural group = -0.113, 95% CI = (-0.440, 0.239), p = 0.53


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.195, 95% CI = (-0.398, 0.025), p = 0.08




Correlation = -0.053, 95% CI = (-0.239, 0.137), p = 0.59



Recommendations vs. JFI



Correlation = -0.093, 95% CI = (-0.300, 0.122), p = 0.40





Correlation for rural group = -0.206, 95% CI = (-0.585, 0.247), p = 0.37


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.088, 95% CI = (-0.329, 0.163), p = 0.49




Total recommendations vs. JFI buckets



Mobility rehab vs. JFI



Correlation for rural group = -0.006, 95% CI = (-0.437, 0.426), p = 0.98


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.052, 95% CI = (-0.296, 0.198), p = 0.68



DME vs. JFI



Correlation for rural group = -0.181, 95% CI = (-0.568, 0.272), p = 0.43


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.126, 95% CI = (-0.362, 0.126), p = 0.33



Speech rehab vs. JFI



Correlation for rural group = 0.409, 95% CI = (-0.027, 0.714), p = 0.07


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.196, 95% CI = (-0.423, 0.055), p = 0.12



Medications vs. JFI



Correlation for rural group = -0.248, 95% CI = (-0.614, 0.206), p = 0.28


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.015, 95% CI = (-0.262, 0.234), p = 0.91



Social work vs. JFI



Correlation for rural group = -0.195, 95% CI = (-0.578, 0.258), p = 0.40


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.071, 95% CI = (-0.314, 0.179), p = 0.58

Recommendations vs. ACSC



Correlation = -0.140, 95% CI = (-0.334, 0.065), p = 0.18







Linear regressions between CAN and recommendation buckets


Rural
Urban
Outcome Effect of CAN 95% CI Effect of CAN 95% CI Difference 95% CI
Total recs -0.040 (-0.093, 0.014) -0.035 (-0.082, 0.013) 0.005 (-0.067, 0.076)
Mobility rehab 0.002 (-0.011, 0.016) -0.001 (-0.013, 0.01) -0.004 (-0.021, 0.014)
All DME 0.000 (-0.008, 0.008) -0.011 (-0.018, -0.004) -0.011 (-0.022, 0)
Speech rehab -0.002 (-0.009, 0.005) -0.002 (-0.009, 0.004) 0.000 (-0.009, 0.009)
Medications -0.001 (-0.021, 0.019) 0.009 (-0.008, 0.027) 0.011 (-0.016, 0.038)
Social work -0.003 (-0.014, 0.009) -0.010 (-0.02, 0) -0.007 (-0.022, 0.008)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = ppc2$TotalRecs ~ ppc2$CAN * ppc2$Rurality)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -5.2822 -2.0248 -0.1075  1.4164 10.5432 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                          Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
## (Intercept)              6.148356   2.165742   2.839   0.0054 **
## ppc2$CAN                -0.039629   0.027240  -1.455   0.1486   
## ppc2$RuralityU           1.229432   2.941454   0.418   0.6768   
## ppc2$CAN:ppc2$RuralityU  0.004702   0.036458   0.129   0.8976   
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 3.006 on 109 degrees of freedom
##   (3 observations deleted due to missingness)
## Multiple R-squared:  0.08172,    Adjusted R-squared:  0.05645 
## F-statistic: 3.233 on 3 and 109 DF,  p-value: 0.02516
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = ppc2$TotalRecs ~ ppc2$CAN * ppc2$Rurality_flipped)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -5.2822 -2.0248 -0.1075  1.4164 10.5432 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                                  Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)                      7.377788   1.990404   3.707 0.000332 ***
## ppc2$CAN                        -0.034927   0.024231  -1.441 0.152338    
## ppc2$Rurality_flippedR          -1.229432   2.941454  -0.418 0.676793    
## ppc2$CAN:ppc2$Rurality_flippedR -0.004702   0.036458  -0.129 0.897618    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 3.006 on 109 degrees of freedom
##   (3 observations deleted due to missingness)
## Multiple R-squared:  0.08172,    Adjusted R-squared:  0.05645 
## F-statistic: 3.233 on 3 and 109 DF,  p-value: 0.02516


Linear regressions between JFI and recommendation buckets


Rural
Urban
Outcome Effect of JFI 95% CI Effect of JFI 95% CI Difference 95% CI
Total recs -0.180 (-0.784, 0.424) -0.140 (-0.502, 0.223) 0.041 (-0.664, 0.745)
Mobility rehab -0.002 (-0.158, 0.155) -0.021 (-0.115, 0.073) -0.020 (-0.202, 0.163)
All DME -0.018 (-0.12, 0.084) -0.035 (-0.096, 0.027) -0.017 (-0.136, 0.103)
Speech rehab 0.076 (-0.006, 0.158) -0.040 (-0.089, 0.009) -0.116 (-0.211, -0.02)
Medications -0.102 (-0.336, 0.133) -0.009 (-0.15, 0.132) 0.093 (-0.181, 0.366)
Social work -0.048 (-0.181, 0.084) -0.024 (-0.104, 0.056) 0.025 (-0.13, 0.18)
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = ppc2$TotalRecs ~ ppc2$JFI * ppc2$Rurality)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -5.2413 -2.1420 -0.3065  1.5157 11.0382 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                         Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)   
## (Intercept)              4.85000    1.59323   3.044  0.00316 **
## ppc2$JFI                -0.18030    0.30825  -0.585  0.56025   
## ppc2$RuralityU           0.67069    1.91016   0.351  0.72643   
## ppc2$JFI:ppc2$RuralityU  0.04059    0.35953   0.113  0.91039   
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 2.993 on 80 degrees of freedom
##   (32 observations deleted due to missingness)
## Multiple R-squared:  0.0241, Adjusted R-squared:  -0.0125 
## F-statistic: 0.6586 on 3 and 80 DF,  p-value: 0.58
## 
## Call:
## lm(formula = ppc2$TotalRecs ~ ppc2$JFI * ppc2$Rurality_flipped)
## 
## Residuals:
##     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max 
## -5.2413 -2.1420 -0.3065  1.5157 11.0382 
## 
## Coefficients:
##                                 Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)    
## (Intercept)                      5.52069    1.05374   5.239 1.28e-06 ***
## ppc2$JFI                        -0.13971    0.18504  -0.755    0.452    
## ppc2$Rurality_flippedR          -0.67069    1.91016  -0.351    0.726    
## ppc2$JFI:ppc2$Rurality_flippedR -0.04059    0.35953  -0.113    0.910    
## ---
## Signif. codes:  0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
## 
## Residual standard error: 2.993 on 80 degrees of freedom
##   (32 observations deleted due to missingness)
## Multiple R-squared:  0.0241, Adjusted R-squared:  -0.0125 
## F-statistic: 0.6586 on 3 and 80 DF,  p-value: 0.58









ACSC vs Recommendation



Correlation for rural group = 0.308, 95% CI = (-0.170, 0.668), p = 0.20


Correlation for non-rural group = -0.277, 95% CI = (-0.625, 0.164), p = 0.21