Home Health Rehabilitation Utilization Among Medicare Beneficiaries Following Critical Illness.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Medicare beneficiaries recovering from a critical illness are increasingly being discharged home instead of to post-acute care facilities. Rehabilitation services are commonly recommended for intensive care unit (ICU) survivors; however, little is known about the frequency and dose of home-based rehabilitation in this population.

Design

Retrospective analysis of 2012 Medicare hospital and home health (HH) claims data, linked with assessment data from the Medicare Outcomes and Assessment Information Set.

Setting

Participant homes.

Participants

Medicare beneficiaries recovering from an ICU stay longer than 24 hours, who were discharged directly home with HH services within 7 days of discharge and survived without readmission or hospice transfer for at

SUBMITTER: Falvey JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7712590 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature