Postacute rehabilitation care for hip fracture: who gets the most care?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the extent to which demographic and geographic disparities exist in postacute rehabilitation care (PARC) use after hip fracture.

Design

Cross-sectional analysis of 2 years (2005-06) of population-based hospital discharge data.

Setting

All short-term acute care hospitals in four demographically and geographically diverse states (AZ, FL, NJ, WI).

Participants

Individuals aged 65 and older (mean 82.9) admitted to the hospital with a hip fracture who survived their inpatient stay (N = 64,065). The sample was 75.1% female and 91.5% white, 5.8% Hispanic, and 2.7% black.

Measurements

Whether the participant received institutional PARC; for participants who did not receive institutional care, whether they received home health (HH) care; a

SUBMITTER: Freburger JK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3470736 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature