Functional Status Across Post-Acute Settings is Associated With 30-Day and 90-Day Hospital Readmissions.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association between cocalibrated functional scores across post-acute care settings and the subsequent risk of hospital readmission.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting and participants

We analyzed 781,021 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries discharged to either inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs), skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), or home health agencies (HHA) after an acute hospital stay for stroke (N = 143,277), lower extremity joint replacements (512,577), and hip/femur fracture (125,167) between January 1, 2013, and August 31, 2014.

Measures

Functional items from IRF-PAI, MDS, and OASIS were categorized into self-care and mobility domains. We cocalibrated admission functional scores across post-acute settings and d

SUBMITTER: Li CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8627458 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature