Trajectories of risk after hospitalization for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia: retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To characterize the absolute risks for older patients of readmission to hospital and death in the year after hospitalization for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

4767 hospitals caring for Medicare fee for service beneficiaries in the United States, 2008-10.

Participants

More than 3 million Medicare fee for service beneficiaries, aged 65 years or more, surviving hospitalization for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia.

Main outcome measures

Daily absolute risks of first readmission to hospital and death for one year after discharge. To illustrate risk trajectories, we identified the time required for risks of readmission to hospital and death to decline 50% f

SUBMITTER: Dharmarajan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4353309 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature