Healthy Days at Home Among Older Medicare Beneficiaries With Traumatic Brain Injury Requiring Inpatient Rehabilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objectives of this study were to characterize and identify correlates of healthy days at home (HDaH) before and after TBI requiring inpatient rehabilitation.

Setting

Inpatient hospital, nursing home, and home health services.

Participants

Average of n = 631 community-dwelling fee-for-service age 66+ Medicare beneficiaries across 30 replicate samples who were hospitalized for traumatic brain injury (TBI) between 2012 and 2014 and admitted to an inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) within 72 hours of hospital discharge.

Design

Retrospective study using data from Medicare claims supplemented with data from the National Trauma Databank.

Main measures

The primary outcome, HDaH, was calculated as time alive not using inpatient hospital, nursin

SUBMITTER: Kumar RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11387144 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep-Oct 01

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature