ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2010
Length of stay for older adults residing in nursing homes at the end of life.
Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04755374 (Clinical Characteristics and Discharge Assessment of Patients in a Recent Founded Palliative Care Unit), which is not on this map. Cited by 41 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Identifying the Main Predictors of Length of Care in Social Care in Portugal.Portuguese journal of public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo describe lengths of stay of nursing home decedents.
designRetrospective cohort study.
settingThe Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults aged 50 and older.
participantsOne thousand eight hundred seventeen nursing home residents who died between 1992 and 2006. MEASUREMENTS: The primary outcome was length of stay, defined as the number of months between nursing home admission and date of death. Covariates were demographic, social, and clinical factors drawn from the HRS interview conducted closest to the date of nursing home admission.
resultsThe mean age of decedents was 83.3 ± 9.0; 59.1% were female, and 81.5% were white. Median and mean length of stay before death were 5 months (interquartile range 1-20) and 13.7 ± 18.4 months, respectively. Fifty-three percent died within 6 months of placement. Large differences in median length of stay were observed according to sex (men, 3 months vs women, 8 months) and net worth (highest quartile, 3 months vs lowest quartile, 9 months) (all P <.001). These differences persisted after adjustment for age, sex, marital status, net worth, geographic region, and diagnosed chronic conditions (cancer, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, lung disease, heart disease, and stroke).
conclusionNursing home lengths of stay are brief for the majority of decedents. Lengths of stay varied markedly according to factors related to social support.
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