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TY - JOUR
T1 - Identifying the long-term care beneficiaries differences between risk factors of nursing homes and community-based services admissions
AU - Lopes, H.
AU - Mateus, C.
AU - Rosati, N.
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - BackgroundThe Portuguese long-term care sector is classified into home and community-based services (HCBS) and three nursing home (NH) units: convalescence, medium term and rehabilitation, and long term and maintenance.AimsTo identify the main factors of admission into each care setting and explore to what extent these populations are different. 14,140 patients from NH and 6844 from HCBS were included from all over the country.MethodsA logistic regression was estimated to identify determinants of admission into NH care, using sociodemographic characteristics, medical conditions and dependence levels at admission as independent variables, and region of care, referral entity and placement process as control variables. Then, ordered logistic regression was used to identify the contribution of the above factors in each specific NH unit.ResultsBeing female, not being married, not having family/neighbour support, being literate, having mental illness, being cognitively or physically impaired are the main predictors of being admitted into a NH. Within the NH units, placements of the large majority of patients were accurately predicted, based on the available variables. However, for around half of the patients referred to long-term care units, the model expected placements into medium-term units, while for those admitted into short-stay units, the model returned that 29% could have benefited from being admitted into a medium-term care unit.Discussion and conclusionsPatients’ accurate placement is a highly complex and challenging process, demanding more variables than the ones available for the model here presented. Our work confirms the need to collect other type of variables to improve the placement decision process.
AB - BackgroundThe Portuguese long-term care sector is classified into home and community-based services (HCBS) and three nursing home (NH) units: convalescence, medium term and rehabilitation, and long term and maintenance.AimsTo identify the main factors of admission into each care setting and explore to what extent these populations are different. 14,140 patients from NH and 6844 from HCBS were included from all over the country.MethodsA logistic regression was estimated to identify determinants of admission into NH care, using sociodemographic characteristics, medical conditions and dependence levels at admission as independent variables, and region of care, referral entity and placement process as control variables. Then, ordered logistic regression was used to identify the contribution of the above factors in each specific NH unit.ResultsBeing female, not being married, not having family/neighbour support, being literate, having mental illness, being cognitively or physically impaired are the main predictors of being admitted into a NH. Within the NH units, placements of the large majority of patients were accurately predicted, based on the available variables. However, for around half of the patients referred to long-term care units, the model expected placements into medium-term units, while for those admitted into short-stay units, the model returned that 29% could have benefited from being admitted into a medium-term care unit.Discussion and conclusionsPatients’ accurate placement is a highly complex and challenging process, demanding more variables than the ones available for the model here presented. Our work confirms the need to collect other type of variables to improve the placement decision process.
KW - Portuguese long-term care
KW - Nursing homes
KW - Home and community-based services
KW - Dependence levels
KW - Types of care units
U2 - 10.1007/s40520-019-01418-w
DO - 10.1007/s40520-019-01418-w
M3 - Journal article
VL - 32
SP - 2099
EP - 2110
JO - Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
JF - Aging Clinical and Experimental Research
SN - 1720-8319
ER -