Unplanned nursing home admission among discharged polymedicated older inpatients: a single-centre, registry-based study in Switzerland.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate patient characteristics and the available health and drug data associated with unplanned nursing home admission following an acute hospital admission or readmission.

Design

A population-based hospital registry study.

Setting

A public hospital in southern Switzerland (Valais Hospital).

Participants

We explored a population-based longitudinal dataset of 14 705 hospital admissions from 2015 to 2018.

Outcome measures

Sociodemographic, health and drug data, and their interactions predicting the risk of unplanned nursing home admission.

Results

The mean prevalence of unplanned nursing home admission after hospital discharge was 6.1% (n=903/N=14 705). Our predictive analysis revealed that the oldest adults (OR=1.07 for each addit

SUBMITTER: Pereira F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8900032 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature