Factors Associated With Accelerated Hospitalization and Re-hospitalization Among Medicare Home Health Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preventing hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations of older adults receiving Medicare home health (HH) services is a key goal for patients and care providers. This study aimed to identify factors related to greater risk of and earlier hospitalizations from HH, a key step in targeting preventive efforts.

Methods

Data come from Medicare mandated start-of-care assessments from 87,780 HH patients served by 132 agencies in 32 states, collected from January 2013 to March 2015. Using parametric accelerated failure time (AFT) survival models, we evaluated the association between key patient and environmental characteristics and the hazard of and time until hospitalization and re-hospitalization.

Results

In total, 15,030 hospitalizations, including 6,539 re-hospita

SUBMITTER: Lohman MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6093315 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature