Hospital Readmission of Adolescents and Young Adults With Complex Chronic Disease.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Adolescents and young adults (AYA) who have complex chronic disease (CCD) are a growing population that requires hospitalization to treat severe, acute health problems. These patients may have increased risk of readmission as demands on their self-management increase and as they transfer care from pediatric to adult health care practitioners.

Objective

To assess variation across CCDs in the likelihood of readmission for AYA with increasing age.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective 1-year cross-sectional study of the 2014 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Nationwide Readmissions Database for all US hospitals. Participants were 215 580 hospitalized individuals aged 15 to 30 years with cystic fibrosis (n = 15 213), type 1 diabetes (n = 86 8

SUBMITTER: Dunbar P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6659144 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature