Patient Outcomes After Delirium Screening and Incident Alzheimer's Disease or Related Dementias in Skilled Nursing Facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The extent to which a positive delirium screening and new diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or related dementias (ADRD) increases the risk for re-hospitalization, long-term nursing home placement, and death remains unknown.

Objective

To compare long-term outcomes among newly admitted skilled nursing facility (SNF) patients with delirium, incident ADRD, and both conditions.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries who entered a SNF from hospital with a minimum 14-day stay (n = 100,832) from 2015 to 2016.

Main measures

Return to home, hospital readmission, admission to a long-term care facility, or death.

Key results

Patients with delirium were as likely to be discharged home as patients diagnosed w

SUBMITTER: Vo QT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9905370 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature