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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
卷 130, 期 10, 页码 1199-1204出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.04.041
关键词
Care transitions; ECHO; Readmissions
资金
- Donald W. Reynolds Foundation
- Beth Israel Deaconess Care Organization
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Department of Medicine
- Hartford Foundation
- Health Services and Research Administration
- National Institute on Aging [R01 AG041785, R01 AG025037]
- Boston Roybal Center for Active Lifestyle Interventions (RALI Boston) [P30 AG048785]
PURPOSE: Within 30 days of hospital discharge to a skilled nursing facility, older adults are at high risk for death, re-hospitalization, and high-cost health care. The purpose of this study was to examine whether a novel videoconference program called Extension for Community Health Outcomes-Care Transitions (ECHO-CT) that connects an interdisciplinary hospital-based team with clinicians at skilled nursing facilities reduces patient mortality, hospital readmission, skilled nursing facility length of stay, and 30-day health care costs. METHODS: We undertook a prospective cohort study comparing cost and health care utilization outcomes between ECHO-CT facilities and matched comparisons from January 2014-December 2014. RESULTS: Thirty-day readmission rates were significantly lower in the intervention group (odds ratio 0.57; 95% CI, 0.34-0.96; P-value .04), as were the 30-day total health care cost ($2602.19 lower; 95% CI, -$4133.90 to -$1070.48; P-value <. 001) and the average length of stay at the skilled nursing facility (-5.52 days; 95% CI, -9.61 to -1.43; P=.001). The 30-day mortality rate was not significantly lower in the intervention group (odds ratio 0.38; 95% CI, 0.11-1.24; P=.11). CONCLUSION: Patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities participating in the ECHO-CT program had shorter lengths of stay, lower 30-day rehospitalization rates, and lower 30-day health care costs compared with those in matched skilled nursing facilities delivering usual care. ECHO-CT may improve patient transitions to postacute care at lower overall cost. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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