Table 5.
Rates of eye care utilization by racial group and stratified by frailty, adjusted. Negative binomial regression results assessing incident rate ratio for each utilization category by race, adjusted for age, gender, glaucoma severity and socioeconomic status, stratified by frailty group.
| Table 5: Rates of Eye Care Utilization by Race and Stratified by Frailty, Adjusted | ||
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| Incident Rate Ratio comparing Black/African American vs. Non-Hispanic White | ||
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| Non-Frail (CFIa <0.2) | Frail (CFI 0.2–1) | |
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| Outpatient eye examinations, office visits, consultations | 0.93 (0.92, 0.95) | 0.92 (0.84, 0.99) |
| Inpatient, emergency department encounters | 2.67 (1.69, 4.22) | 0.41 (0.05, 3.66) |
| Nursing facility encounters, home visits | 2.03 (1.08, 3.80) | 0.35 (0.03, 4.32) |
| Visual field tests | 0.95 (0.94, 0.97) | 0.89 (0.77, 1.03) |
| Retinal nerve fiber layer optical coherence tomography tests | 0.80 (0.78, 0.82) | 0.71 (0.61, 0.84) |
| Glaucoma drug dispensed, days | 0.98 (0.93, 1.03) | 0.92 (0.74, 1.15) |
| Selective laser trabeculoplasties | 0.96 (0.87, 1.05) | 1.39 (0.81, 2.40) |
| Glaucoma surgeries | 1.21 (1.08, 1.34) | 0.85 (0.38, 1.89) |
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Claims-based frailty index