ArticleCritical care medicine2026
Days Alive and at Home After Critical Illness Hospitalization Among Older Adults and Its Association With Delivery of In-Hospital Rehabilitation.
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- Contextual nonmedical health factors and critical care-related outcomes: a systematic review.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Negotiating complexity in spite of scarce evidence-how to care for older ICU patients?Intensive care medicine · 2026Article
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objectivesOlder adults hospitalized to the ICU are at risk for functional decline. In-hospital rehabilitation can mitigate functional decline; however, its association with long-term outcomes is unknown. Our objective was to describe days alive and at home (DAAH) in the 100 days (DAAH 100 ) after ICU hospitalization among older adults and evaluate whether in-hospital rehabilitation is associated with improved DAAH 100 .
designRetrospective cohort study.
settingNational Health and Aging Trends Study linked with Medicare claims (2011-2019). PATIENTS: Community-dwelling Medicare beneficiaries 65 years old or older who survived ICU hospitalization.
interventionsNone. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN
resultsThe outcome DAAH 100 was calculated by subtracting all post-discharge days in any of emergency department, observation unit, inpatient medical, psychiatric, rehabilitation unit, skilled nursing or hospice facility, and post-death from 100. The exposure was units of in-hospital rehabilitation, that is, physical and/or occupational therapy. We constructed a proportional odds logistic regression model of DAAH 100 (ordinal) adjusted for demographics, pre-hospitalization frailty and functional status, and hospitalization characteristics. We identified 884 ICU hospitalizations (weighted n = 5,330,486) of older adults discharged alive (age, median [interquartile range (IQR)]: 81 yr [75-86]; 50.5% female). Median DAAH 100 was 95 (IQR: 58.4-100) with median of 4 units (~1 hr) of in-hospital rehabilitation delivered over 6 days. After adjustment, each hour of in-hospital rehabilitation was associated with 8% higher odds of experiencing any of the three highest levels of DAAH 100 after discharge (adjusted odds ratio [95% CI], 1.08 [1.04-1.08]).
conclusionsIn this nationally representative study of older ICU survivors, the average patient spent 95 of the first 100 post-discharge DAAH; delivery of greater amounts of in-hospital rehabilitation was associated with increased DAAH 100 after discharge. These findings highlight the substantial heterogeneity in time spent at home by older ICU survivors and the potential for in-hospital rehabilitation to improve this important patient-centered outcome.
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