Multistate Competing Risk Analysis of Transition Back to the Community Among Long-Term Care Home (LTC) Destined Patients: A Brief Report.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The demand for long-term care in community and facilitybased settings in Canada is expected to increase with population growth. The Toronto Grace Health Center piloted an intervention program that aims to support return to the community of acute hospital patients designated for LTC placement. We investigated whether this program was effective in transitioning the program patients back to their homes in the community and the factors associated with transitioning patients to different destinations.

Method

We performed a competing risk multi-state analysis of 111 patients enrolled into the Harbour Light (HL) transitional unit program between January 2020 and June 2023.

Results

At the time of the study, 92 enrolled patients had been discharged and of those these

SUBMITTER: Egbujie BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10748573 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature