The Weekend Effect in Older Adult Urosepsis Admissions

BACKGROUND: Urosepsis is common in older adults with more infections identified as community-acquired as opposed to hospital-acquired. Despite the prevalence of urosepsis and its high mortality rates, very little is known about the care outcomes of older adult patients with community-acquired urosepsis who are admitted to the hospital on a weekend. OBJECTIVES: To determine if a weekend admission was associated with inpatient mortality in older adults admitted to an acute care hospital with a diagnosis of community-acquired urosepsis. METHODS: Data from the State Inpatient Datasets for Florida were merged with data from the American Hospital Association Annual Survey on hospital characteristics for the year 2014. Logistic regression models with a sizable number of patient and hospital controls were used to identify factors associated with inpatient mortality in patients 65 years of age and older with a primary or secondary diagnosis of community-acquired urosepsis. RESULTS: In total 21,904 older adults were admitted to a Florida hospital with a diagnosis of community-acquired urosepsis; 5736 of these patients were admitted on a weekend. In a fully adjusted logistic regression model, weekend admission was associated with a 12% increase in the odds of mortality, and each additional hour of nursing care per patient day was associated with a 2% decrease in the odds of mortality. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings suggest that weekend admission was associated with an increase in the odds of mortality in older adults with community-acquired urosepsis. Small increases in nurse staffing seem to reduce the odds of mortality

Acute care · Community hospital · Health care · Logistic regression · Odds · Odds ratio · Staffing · Weekend effect · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Emergency Medicine · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Hospital Admissions and Outcomes · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Nursing

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