Table 4 Characteristics, mortality and admission rates by type of care received during the 90 days after discharge, hip fracture
N = 791 | Just Community nursing (CN) (N = 243, 30.7%) | Just long-term care (LTC) (N = 229, 29.0%) | GR + CN (N = 82, 10.4%) | Just Geriatric rehabilitation (GR) (N = 51, 6.5%) | CN + LTC (N = 25, 3.2%) | Just short stay nursing home (N = 10, 1.3%) | Other combination (N = 69, 8.7%) | None of the four types of aftercare (N = 90, 11.4%) |
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Age, mean (SD) | 85.5 (5.5) | 88.1 (5.3) | 86.7 (5.6) | 85.7 (5.8) | 88.3 (5.0) | 86.6 (5.5) | 87.6 (5.7) | 85.2 (5.3) |
Male, % | 25.1 | 17.2 | 32.9 | 21.6 | 32.0 | 50.0 | 26.1 | 30.0 |
SES, median [range] | −0.1 [−4–2.4] | −0.1 [−4.0–2.3] | − 0.1 [−5.7–2.6] | −0.6 [−3.5–2.1] | −0.2 [−2.1–2.1] | −0.7 [−2.3–1] | −0.2 [− 3.0–2.1] | 0.0 [− 3.3–2.3] |
Number of morbidities (PCG) | 3 [2–7] | 3 [2–8] | 3 [2–7] | 3 [2–7] | 3 [2–8] | 3 [2–7] | 2 [3–7] | 3 [2–7] |
Total 2015 costs in Euro's, median | 30,708 [9143–177,666] | 18,014 [4579–124,274] | 36,152 [7101–141,344] | 38,698 [17801–96,409] | 18,966 [10752–62,922] | 30,893 [6138–44,763] | 30,382 [8556–140,141] | 23,484 [1424–107,259] |
Mortality, N(%) | ||||||||
0–90 days | 13 (5.3) | 53 (24.0) | 6 (7.3) | 7 (13.7) | 6 (24.0) | 3 (30.0) | 6 (8.7) | 19 (21.1) |
90–180 days | 8 (3.3) | 18 (8.1) | 5 (6.1) | 3 (5.9) | 2 (8.0) | 2 (20.0) | 8 (11.6) | 3 (3.3) |
Age at death, mean (SD) | 87.6 (6.4) | 88.9 (5.6) | 89.7 (5.4) | 87.8 (7.0) | 89.9 (4.2) | 87.8 (5.8) | 91.5 (4.5) | 87.7 (5.2) |
90–180 day readmission (clinical), N (%) | 36 (14.8) | 22 (10.0) | 18 (22.0) | 8 (15.7) | 1 (4.0) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (8.7) | 12 (13.3) |