Table 4 Length of stay and living situation after discharge for PACD risk groups
Medical patients | Neurological patients | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
PACD day-1 (n = 1432) | PACD day-3 (n = 1325) | PACD day-1 (n = 464) | PACD day-3 (n = 423) | |||||||||
Risk groupsa | < 8 | 8–15 | > 15 | < 8 | 8–15 | > 15 | < 8 | 8–15 | > 15 | < 8 | 8–15 | > 15 |
Number of patients (n) | 892 | 428 | 112 | 555 | 625 | 145 | 355 | 95 | 14 | 256 | 147 | 20 |
Length of stay (mean)* | 6.3 | 9.3 | 9.6 | 5.7 | 8.7 | 13.8 | 6.1 | 9.5 | 9.4 | 5.7 | 9.6 | 12.7 |
Age (mean)* | 60.6 | 74.5 | 79.4 | 61.5 | 70.9 | 73.9 | 60.5 | 76.0 | 72.3 | 60.1 | 69.9 | 76.0 |
Living situation after hospital discharge: % | ||||||||||||
At home | 95.3 | 82.5 | 68.8 | 97.3 | 87.8 | 58.6 | 83.7 | 64.2 | 50.0 | 90.6 | 59.2 | 25.0 |
Nursing home | 1.0 | 7.2 | 15.2 | 0.7 | 3.8 | 19.3 | 0.3 | 3.2 | 7.1 | 0.0 | 3.4 | 0.0 |
Home for the elderly | 0.1 | 1.9 | 5.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 4.1 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 5.0 |
Rehabilitation | 3.6 | 8.4 | 10.7 | 1.8 | 7.0 | 17.9 | 15.8 | 32.6 | 42.9 | 9.4 | 37.4 | 70.0 |