Functional Status Outperforms Comorbidities in Predicting Acute Care Readmissions in Medically Complex Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine functional status versus medical comorbidities as predictors of acute care readmissions in medically complex patients.

Design

Retrospective database study.

Setting

U.S. inpatient rehabilitation facilities.

Participants

Subjects included 120,957 patients in the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation admitted to inpatient rehabilitation facilities under the medically complex impairment group code between 2002 and 2011.

Interventions

A Basic Model based on gender and functional status was developed using logistic regression to predict the odds of 3-, 7-, and 30-day readmission from inpatient rehabilitation facilities to acute care hospitals. Functional status was measured by the FIM(®) motor score. The Basic Model was compared t

SUBMITTER: Shih SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4617914 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature