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Effectiveness of an intermediate care hospital on readmissions, mortality, activities of daily living and use of health care services among hospitalized adults aged 60 years and older—a controlled…

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, August 2015
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Title
Effectiveness of an intermediate care hospital on readmissions, mortality, activities of daily living and use of health care services among hospitalized adults aged 60 years and older—a controlled observational study
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BMC Health Services Research, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12913-015-1022-x
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Unni Dahl, Aslak Steinsbekk, Roar Johnsen

Abstract

Intermediate care is a health care model developed to optimize the coordination of health care services and functional independence. In Central Norway, an intermediate care hospital (ICH) was established in a municipality to improve hospital discharge and follow-up among elderly patients with chronic conditions and comprehensive care needs. The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of hospital discharges to a municipality with an ICH compared to discharges to a municipality without an ICH. This was a non-randomized controlled observational study of hospitalized patients aged 60 years and older from two municipalities. Patients (n = 328) admitted to a general hospital from February 2010 through September 2011 were included in the study and followed for 12 months. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and Cox proportional hazard regression. Each patient discharged from the general hospital to the municipality with an ICH had a shorter length of stay and used on average 4.2 (p = 0.046) fewer hospital days during 1 year compared to patients from the municipality without an ICH. Otherwise, no statistical significant differences were found between the municipalities in terms of hospital readmissions, admissions, mortality, activities of daily living, primary health care utilization or total care days. A post hoc analysis of patients discharged to the ICH compared to the municipality without an ICH, showed that the ICH patients were older and frailer, but the outcome was similar to the main analysis. Having an ICH in the municipality facilitated shorter length of hospital stay and kept the risk of readmissions, mortality and post-hospitalization care needs at the same level as without an ICH.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 68 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 13 19%
Student > Master 10 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 12%
Other 5 7%
Researcher 5 7%
Other 12 18%
Unknown 15 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 15 22%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 1%
Computer Science 1 1%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 19 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 December 2016.
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#13,213,964
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Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#4,459
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#123,055
of 268,161 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#78
of 149 outputs
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