Does Early Follow-Up Improve the Outcomes of Sepsis Survivors Discharged to Home Health Care?

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is little evidence to guide the care of over a million sepsis survivors following hospital discharge despite high rates of hospital readmission.

Objective

We examined whether early home health nursing (first visit within 2 days of hospital discharge and at least 1 additional visit in the first posthospital week) and early physician follow-up (an outpatient visit in the first posthospital week) reduce 30-day readmissions among Medicare sepsis survivors.

Design

A pragmatic, comparative effectiveness analysis of Medicare data from 2013 to 2014 using nonlinear instrumental variable analysis.

Subjects

Medicare beneficiaries in the 50 states and District of Columbia discharged alive after a sepsis hospitalization and received home health care.

Mea

SUBMITTER: Deb P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11648946 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature