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ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2025

Transitional Care Management in Persons With Dementia After Heart Failure Hospitalization and Skilled Nursing Facility Care.

Thomas A Bayer, Hiren Varma, Peter A Hollmann, Pedro L Gozalo

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Article in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Thomas A BayerProvidence VA Medical Center, Transformative Health Systems Research to Improve Veteran Equity and Independence (THRIVE) Center of Innovation (COIN), Providence, Rhode Island, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1616-0714
Hiren VarmaBrown School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
Peter A HollmannDivision of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4461-4920
Pedro L GozaloProvidence VA Medical Center, Transformative Health Systems Research to Improve Veteran Equity and Independence (THRIVE) Center of Innovation (COIN), Providence, Rhode Island, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7063-1196

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VARIATIONS IN LIFE'S FINAL CHAPTERP01AG027296 · NIA · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI AMAL N. TRIVEDI · 2007 to 2026
$38.9M
Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Treatment and Outcomes in America: Changing Policies and Systems, NIA 5P01AG027296NIA NIH HHS P01 AG027296
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Abstract

backgroundDementia complicates care transitions, such as discharge from heart failure hospitalization to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) and then to home. Transitional care management (TCM), a bundled service that includes telephone communication within 2 business days and an office visit within 14 days, potentially addresses this problem.

methodsWe analyzed trends in TCM among Medicare beneficiaries with dementia hospitalized for heart failure in 2013-2017, comparing hospital-home discharges to hospital-SNF-home discharges. We then used a retrospective cohort study to estimate the risk-adjusted association of TCM with successful discharge home.

resultsTCM occurred in 45 (2.3%) of 1990 eligible hospital-SNF-home discharges in year 2013, increasing to 205 (9.8%) of 2095 eligible in year 2017. In a cohort of 11,376 hospital-SNF-home transitions, the relative risk (95% CI) of successful community discharge was 1.24 (1.11-1.40) with TCM compared with no office visit within 14 days of discharge or TCM.

conclusionsPersons with dementia transitioning from heart failure hospitalization to SNF to home receive TCM less frequently than persons discharged directly home from the hospital. Nonetheless, TCM is associated with successful discharge in this vulnerable group of patients.

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DementiaHeart FailureHospitalizationPatient DischargeSkilled Nursing FacilitiesTransitional CareAgedAged, 80 and overFemaleHumansMaleMedicareRetrospective StudiesUnited Statesdementiaheart failurepost‐acuterehabilitationsuccessful discharge

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