Improvement in Activities of Daily Living during a Nursing Home Stay and One-Year Mortality among Older Adults with Sepsis.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objective

To describe the recovery of activities of daily living (ADLs) during a skilled nursing facility (SNF) stay and the association with 1-year mortality after SNF discharge among Medicare beneficiaries treated in intensive care for sepsis.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Skilled nursing facilities in the United States.

Participants

Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries admitted to an SNF within 3 days of discharge from a hospitalization that included an intensive care unit (ICU) stay for sepsis between January 1, 2013, and September 30, 2015 (N = 59,383).

Measurements

Data from the Minimum Data Set (MDS) were used to calculate a total score for seven ADLs. Improvement was determined by comparing the total ADL scores from the

SUBMITTER: Downer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8049879 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature