Effects of a Rehabilitation-at-Home Program Compared to Post-acute Skilled Nursing Facility Care on Safety, Readmission, and Community Dwelling Status : A Matched Cohort Analysis

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OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of Rehabilitation-at-Home (RaH), which provides high-frequency, multidisciplinary post-acute rehabilitative services in patients' homes.

DESIGN: Comparative effectiveness analysis.

SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Medicare Fee-For-Service patients who received RaH in a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Center Demonstration during 2016-2017 (N=173) or who received Medicare Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) care in 2016-2017 within the same geographic service area with similar inclusion and exclusion criteria (N=5535).

METHODS: We propensity-matched RaH participants to a cohort of SNF patients using clinical and demographic characteristics with exact match on surgical and non-surgical hospitalizations. Outcomes included hospitalization within 30 days of post-acute admission, death within 30 days of post-acute discharge, length of stay, falls, use of antipsychotic medication, and discharge to community.

RESULTS: The majority of RaH participants were older than or equal to 85 years (57.8%) and non-Hispanic white (72.2%) with mean hospital length of stay of 8.1 (SD 7.6) days. In propensity-matched analyses, 10.1% (95% CI: 0.5%, 19.8) and 4.2% (95% CI: 0.1%, 8.5%) fewer RaH participants experienced hospital readmission and death, respectively. RaH participants had, on average, 2.8 fewer days (95% CI 1.4, 4.3) of post-acute care; 11.4% (95% CI: 5.2%, 17.7%) fewer RaH participants experienced fall; and 25.8% (95% CI: 17.8%, 33.9%) more were discharged to the community. Use of antipsychotic medications was no different.

CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS: RaH is a promising alternative to delivering SNF-level post-acute RaH. The program seems to be safe, readmissions are lower, and transition back to the community is improved.

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:61

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Medical care - 61(2023), 11 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 805-812

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Englisch

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Augustine, Matthew R [VerfasserIn]
Intrator, Orna [VerfasserIn]
Li, Jiejin [VerfasserIn]
Lubetsky, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Ornstein, Katherine A [VerfasserIn]
DeCherrie, Linda V [VerfasserIn]
Leff, Bruce [VerfasserIn]
Siu, Albert L [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 12.10.2023

published: Print-Electronic

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10.1097/MLR.0000000000001925

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NLM362300828