Outcomes after observation stays among older adult Medicare beneficiaries in the USA: retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: Objective To characterize rates and trends over time of emergency department treatment-and-discharge stays, repeat observation stays, inpatient stays, any hospital revisit, and death within 30 days of discharge from observation stays.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting 4750 hospitals in the USA.Participants Nationally representative sample of Medicare fee for service beneficiaries aged 65 or over discharged after 363 037 index observation stays, 2 540 000 index emergency department treatment-and-discharge stays, and 2 667 525 index inpatient stays from 2006-11.Main outcome measures Rates of emergency department treatment-and-discharge stays, observation stays, inpatient stays, any hospital revisit, and death within 30 days of discharge from index ob

SUBMITTER: Dharmarajan K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5476173 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature