Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in France.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To identify specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death.

Design

Prospective, multicentre, DAMAGE (Patient Outcomes After Hospitalization in Acute Geriatric Unit) cohort of adults aged 75 and over, discharged from an acute geriatric unit (AGU) and followed up for 12 months.

Setting

Six recruiting hospital centres in the Hauts-de-France and Normandie regions of France.

Main outcome measures

We performed a latent class analysis to identify subgroups at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death, followed by a logistic regression analysis to determine the characteristics associated with the identified subgroups.

Results

3081 patients were included (mean (SD) age: 86.4 (5.5)) and two subgroups were

SUBMITTER: Visade F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11752050 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature