OBJECTIVE: To quantify the long-term use of various types of healthcare services in @entity1 with @entity131 and to estimate the relative contribution of predisposing characteristics, enabling factors and health-related needs to determine whether there is equity in healthcare utilization. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. @entity1 : Seventy-nine non-institutionalized moderate to severe @entity1 with @entity131 (age range 16-67 years). METHODS: Healthcare use was measured at 3-5 years post-injury. The relative contribution of predisposing characteristics, enabling factors, and health-related needs to the utilization of various types of care was analysed using logistic regression to determine whether there was equity in healthcare utilization. RESULTS: At least one healthcare service was used by 68% of the @entity1 . Health-related needs explained most of the utilization. However, predisposing characteristics were also related to the use of other medical care and supportive care. @entity1 with a high internal locus of control were more likely to be users of supportive care, and @entity1 with a high locus of control with the physician were more likely to visit medical specialists. CONCLUSION: The results suggest that most of our @entity1 who needed care, received care. However, inequity could not be ruled out completely as predisposing characteristics also contributed to some types of healthcare utilization.

Is there equity in long-term healthcare utilization after XXXX ?

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['PATIENTS', 'patients', 'Patients'] @entity131 :: ('MESH:D001930', 'Disease') :: ['traumatic brain injury']
@entity131 :: (MESH:D001930,Disease) :: ['traumatic brain injury']
