Functional Status Predicts Acute Care Readmissions from Inpatient Rehabilitation in the Stroke Population.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Acute care readmission risk is an increasingly recognized problem that has garnered significant attention, yet the reasons for acute care readmission in the inpatient rehabilitation population are complex and likely multifactorial. Information on both medical comorbidities and functional status is routinely collected for stroke patients participating in inpatient rehabilitation. We sought to determine whether functional status is a more robust predictor of acute care readmissions in the inpatient rehabilitation stroke population compared with medical comorbidities using a large, administrative data set.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of data from the Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation from the years 2002 to 2011 was performed examining stroke patients

SUBMITTER: Slocum C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4657881 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature