Increased healthcare facility use in veterans surviving sepsis hospitalization.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We sought to measure inpatient healthcare utilization among U.S. Veteran Affairs beneficiaries surviving sepsis hospitalization, and to examine how post-sepsis utilization varies by select patient characteristics.

Materials and methods

Retrospective cohort study of 26,561 Veterans who survived sepsis hospitalization in 2009. Using difference-in-differences analysis, we compared changes in healthcare utilization in one year before and one year after sepsis hospitalization by Veteran age, illness severity, and recent nursing facility use.

Results

Median days in a healthcare facility increased from 5 to 10. Veterans with recent nursing facility use spent a median 65days (or 86% of days alive) in a healthcare facility in the year after sepsis. Older age, greater i

SUBMITTER: DeMerle KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5733730 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature