Identifying the long-term care beneficiaries: differences between risk factors of nursing homes and community-based services admissions

The Portuguese long-term care sector is classified into home and community-based services (HCBS) and three nursing home (NH) units: convalescence, medium term and rehabilitation, and long term and maintenance. To identify the main factors of admission into each care setting and explore to what extent these populations are different. 14,140 patients from NH and 6844 from HCBS were included from all over the country. A logistic regression was...