Characterizing hospitalization trajectories in the high-need, high-cost population using electronic health record data.
Health Aff Sch
; 1(6): qxad077, 2023 Dec.
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ABSTRACT
High utilization by a minority of patients accounts for a large share of health care costs, but the dynamics of this utilization remain poorly understood. We sought to characterize longitudinal trajectories of hospitalization among adult patients at an academic medical center from 2017 to 2023. Among 3404 patients meeting eligibility criteria, following an initial "rising-risk" period of 3 hospitalizations in 6 months, growth mixture modeling discerned 4 clusters of subsequent hospitalization trajectories no further utilization, low chronic utilization, persistently high utilization with a slow rate of increase, and persistently high utilization with a fast rate of increase. Baseline factors associated with higher-order hospitalization trajectories included admission to a nonsurgical service, full code status, intensive care unit-level care, opioid administration, discharge home, and comorbid cardiovascular disease, end-stage kidney or liver disease, or cancer. Characterizing hospitalization trajectories and their correlates in this manner lays groundwork for early identification of those most likely to become high-need, high-cost patients.
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Health Aff Sch
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2023
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Estados Unidos
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Reino Unido