Abstract | OBJECTIVES: SETTING: Forty-six NHs in two states. PARTICIPANTS:
Nursing home residents who died from 2006 to 2010 stratified according to days between initial consultation and death (≤7, 8-30, 31-60, 61-180). Propensity score matching identified three controls (n = 1,174) according to strata for each consultation recipient (n = 477). MEASUREMENTS: Outcomes were hospitalizations in the last 7, 30, and 60 days of life; emergency department (ED) visits in the last 30 and 60 days; and any potentially burdensome care transition, defined as hospitalization or hospice admission within 3 days of death or two or more hospitalizations or ED visits within 30 days. Weighted multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to evaluate outcomes. RESULTS: Residents with consultations had lower rates of hospitalization than controls, with rates lowest when initial consultations were furthest from death. For instance, in residents with initial consultations 8 to 30 days before death, the adjusted hospitalization rate in the last 7 days of life was 11.1% (95% confidence interval (CI) = 9.8-12.4%), vs 22.0% (95% CI = 20.6-23.4%) in controls, although in those with initial consultations 61 to 180 days before death, rates were 6.9% (95% CI = 5.5-8.4%), vs 22.9% (95% CI = 20.5-25.4%). Potentially burdensome transition rates were lower when consultations were 61 to 180 days before death (16.2%, 95% CI = 13.7-18.6%), vs 28.2% (95% CI = 25.8-30.6%) for controls. CONCLUSION:
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Authors | Susan C Miller, Julie C Lima, Orna Intrator, Edward Martin, Janet Bull, Laura C Hanson |
Journal | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
(J Am Geriatr Soc)
Vol. 64
Issue 11
Pg. 2280-2287
(11 2016)
ISSN: 1532-5415 [Electronic] United States |
PMID | 27641157
(Publication Type: Journal Article)
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Copyright | © 2016, Copyright the Authors Journal compilation © 2016, The American Geriatrics Society. |
Topics |
- Aged, 80 and over
- Emergency Service, Hospital
(statistics & numerical data)
- Female
- Geriatric Assessment
- Hospice Care
(statistics & numerical data)
- Hospitalization
(statistics & numerical data)
- Humans
- Male
- Medicare
- Nursing Homes
- Palliative Care
- Propensity Score
- Quality Improvement
- Quality of Life
- Referral and Consultation
- Retrospective Studies
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Terminal Care
- United States
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