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Patient and Hospitalization Characteristics Associated With Increased Postacute Care Facility Discharges From US Hospitals.
Burke, Robert E; Juarez-Colunga, Elizabeth; Levy, Cari; Prochazka, Allan V; Coleman, Eric A; Ginde, Adit A.
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  • Burke RE; *Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Eastern Colorado Health Care System †Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver ‡Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado School of Public Health §Division of Health Care Policy and Research ∥Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO.
Med Care ; 53(6): 492-500, 2015 Jun.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25906015
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: The number of patients discharged to postacute care (PAC) facilities after hospitalization increased by 50% nationally between 1996 and 2010. We sought to describe payors and patients most affected by this trend and to identify diagnoses for which PAC facility care may be substituting for continued hospital care. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of the National Hospital Discharge Survey from 1996 to 2010. SETTING: Adult discharges from a national sample of non-Federal hospitals. PARTICIPANTS/EXPOSURES: Adults admitted and discharged to a PAC facility between 1996 and 2010. Our analysis includes 2.99 million sampled discharges, representative of 386 million discharges nationally. MEASUREMENTS: Patient demographic and hospitalization characteristics, including length of stay (LOS) and diagnoses treated. RESULTS: More than half (50.7%) of all patients discharged to PAC facilities were 80 years old or older in 2010; 40% of hospitalizations in this age group ended with a PAC stay. Decreases in LOS and increases in PAC facility use were consistent across payors and patient demographics. PAC facilities may be substituting for continued inpatient care for patients with pneumonia, hip fracture, and sepsis as these diagnoses demonstrated the clearest trends of decreasing LOS and increasing discharges to PAC facilities. CONCLUSIONS: The rise in discharges to PAC facilities is occurring in all age groups and payors, though the predominant population is the very old Medicare patient, for whom successful rehabilitation may be most unsure. PAC facility care may be increasingly substituted for prolonged hospitalizations for patients with pneumonia, hip fracture, and sepsis.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Hospitalização / Hospitais Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Equity_inequality Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Revista: Med Care Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Estados Unidos

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Hospitalização / Hospitais Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Aspecto: Equity_inequality Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Aged80 / Female / Humans / Male / Middle aged País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Revista: Med Care Ano de publicação: 2015 Tipo de documento: Article País de publicação: Estados Unidos