Acute hospital use in older adults following the 2015 Dutch reform of long-term care: an interrupted time series analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2015, the Dutch government implemented a long-term care (LTC) reform primarily designed to promote older adults to age-in-place. Increased proportions of older adults living in the community might have resulted in more and longer acute hospitalisations. The aims of this study were to evaluate whether the Dutch 2015 LTC reform was associated with immediate and longitudinal increases in the monthly rate of acute clinical hospitalisation and monthly average hospital length of stay (LOS) in adults aged 65 years or older.

Methods

In this interrupted time series analysis of national hospital data (2009-18), we evaluated the association of the Dutch 2015 LTC reform with the monthly rate of acute clinical hospitalisation and monthly average LOS for older adults (aged ≥

SUBMITTER: Wammes JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10316520 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature