Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations for Elderly Long-stay Residents in Nursing Homes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9099881 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William D Spector (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, corresponding author), Rhona Limcangco (Social and Scientific Systems (United States)), Christianna Williams (Abt Global (United States)), William Rhodes (0000-0001-9361-6223, Abt Global (United States)), Donna Hurd (Abt Global (United States)) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 673-681 |
| Publication date | 2013-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/mlr.0b013e3182984bff |
| PMID | 23703648 |
| OpenAlex | W2039435665 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 17 |
BACKGROUND: Hospitalizations of long-stay nursing home (NH) residents are common. The high estimates of potentially avoidable hospitalizations in NHs suggest that efforts to reduce avoidable hospitalizations may be effective in lowering health care expenditures as well as improving the quality of care for NH residents. OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship between clinical risk factors, facility characteristics and State policy variables, and both avoidable and unavoidable hospitalizations. METHOD: Hospitalization risk is estimated using competing risks proportional hazards regressions. Three hospitalization measures were constructed: (1) ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs); (2) additional NH-sensitive avoidable conditions (ANHACs); and (3) nursing home "unavoidable" conditions (NHUCs). In all models, we include clinical risk factors, facility characteristics, and State policy variables that may influence the decision to hospitalize. SUBJECTS: The population of interest is a cohort of long-stay NH residents. Data are from the Nursing Home Stay file, a sample of residents in 10% of certified NHs in the United States (2006-2008). RESULTS: Three fifths of hospitalizations were potentially avoidable and the majority was for infections, injuries, and congestive heart failure. Clinical risk factors include renal disease, diabetes, and a high number of medications among others. Staffing, quality, and reimbursement affect avoidable, but not unavoidable hospitalizations. CONCLUSIONS: A NH-sensitive measure of avoidable hospitalizations identifies both clinical facility and policy risk factors, emphasizing the potential for both reimbursement and clinical strategies to reduce hospitalizations from NHs
Ambulatory · Ambulatory care · Cohort · Environmental health · Health care · Intensive care medicine · Medicaid · Medical emergency · Nursing homes · Population · Reimbursement · Staffing · Emergency Medicine · Frailty in Older Adults · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
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| Citations per year | 0.45 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |