Discharge disposition disagreements and re-admission risk among older adults: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Re-admissions after hospitalisation are a burden for patients and costly. Our objective was to examine whether re-admissions were increased among older patients when they or their surrogates disagreed with the discharge disposition recommended by the clinical team at hospital discharge.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Large academic medical centre in New York, NY.

Participants

514 hospital discharges of older patients admitted to a geriatric inpatient service between 1 July 2007 and 30 June 2008. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE AND MAIN INDEPENDENT VARIABLE: Re-admissions for any reason to any hospital within 30 days after discharge were identified. Agreement or disagreement with the discharge disposition recommended by the clinical team at hos

SUBMITTER: Dinescu A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3547317 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature