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6 Things to Know Following Long-Term Acute Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries: Study
Submitted by Charlene Ice on Tue, 08/27/2019 - 00:58
- The median survival duration was 8.3 months.
- The 5‐year survival rate was only 18%.
- 53% of the patients did not live 60 consecutive days without inpatient care.
- The median percentage of their remaining life spent as an inpatient was 65.6%.
- 36.9% died in an inpatient setting, never having returned home after the long-term acute care admission.
- Only 1% had a palliative care physician consultation.
Notes: Notes: From a study of 14,072 hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries who had been transfered to a long-term acute care hospital from 2009 to 2013, "The Clinical Course after Long‐Term Acute Care Hospital Admission among Older Medicare Beneficiaries," by Anil N. Makam, MD, MAS; Thu Tran, BA; Michael E. Miller, MS; Lei Xuan, PhD; Oanh Kieu Nguyen, MD, MAS; Ethan A. Halm MD, MPH, MBA.
Source: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Source URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jgs.16106
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