Hospitalization Risk Among Older Adults with Sensory Impairments: Development of a Prognostic Model.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop a prognostic model for hospital admissions over a 1-year period among community-dwelling older adults with self-reported hearing and/or vision impairments based on readily obtainable clinical predictors.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey from 1999 to 2006.

Participants

Community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries, aged 65 years and older, with self-reported hearing and/or vision impairment (N = 15,999).

Measurements

The primary outcome was any hospital admission over a predefined 1-year study period. Candidate predictors included demographic factors, prior healthcare utilization, comorbidities, functional impairment, and patient-level factors. We analyzed the association of all candidate pre

SUBMITTER: Deardorff WJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7988218 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature