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Table 1 Demographics, diagnoses, co-morbidities, risk factors for readmission

From: Transitional care interventions reduce unplanned hospital readmissions in high-risk older adults

Characteristic

Group

Total

EN-HaT

Exercise

N-HaT

Control

Group, n

57

56

54

55

222

Demographic Details

 Age, M ± SD

77.1 (7.64)

77.6 (6.50)

77.8 (6.23)

77.9 (6.20)

77.6 (6.64)

 Female, n(%)

46 (80.7)

42 (75.0)

37 (68.5)

37 (67.3)

162 (73.0)

Admission Diagnosis, n (%)

 Respiratory disease

28 (49.1)

21 (37.5)

17 (31.5)

17 (30.9)

83 (37.4)

 Cardiac disease

12 (21.1)

13 (23.2)

13 (24.1)

12 (21.8)

50 (22.5)

 Renal

4 (7.0)

3 (5.4)

3 (5.6)

3 (5.5)

13 (5.9)

 Falls

1 (1.8)

3 (5.5)

4 (7.4)

1 (1.8)

9 (4.1)

 Other

11 (19.3)

15 (26.8)

17 (31.5)

21 (38.1)

64 (28.8)

Comorbidities, n (%)

 Cardiovascular disease

49 (85.9)

54 (96.4)

54 (100)

47 (85.5)

204 (91.8)

 Orthopaedic

35 (61.4)

28 (50.0)

32 (59.3)

31 (56.4)

126 (56.8)

 Respiratory disease

33 (57.9)

35 (62.5)

29 (53.7)

28 (50.9)

125 (56.3)

 Gastrointestinal

32 (56.1)

23 (41.1)

30 (55.6)

30 (55.6)

115 (51.8)

 Endocrine

14 (24.6)

18 (32.1)

20 (37.0)

11 (20.0)

63 (28.4)

 Renal

9 (15.8)

12 (21.4)

11 (20.4)

11 (20.0)

43 (19.4)

 Other

29 (50.1)

27 (48.2)

22 (40.7)

30 (54.5)

108 (48.6)

Number of comorbidities

median (range)

 

4 (1–8)

4 (1–8)

4 (1–9)

4 (1–8)

4 (1–9)

 Length of hospital  stay

5 (1–13)

6.77 (6.27)

5.09 (3.81)

5 (1–34)

5 (1–47)

 Number of risk factors

3 (1–7)

3 (1–7)

4 (1–7)

3 (1–6)

3 (1–7)

Risk factors n (%)

 Multiple comorbidities

55 (96.5)

55 (98.2)

51 (94.4)

50 (90.9)

211 (95.0)

Age ≥ 75

36 (63.2)

35 (62.5)

37 (68.5)

38 (69.1)

146 (65.8)

 Poor/fair health self-rating

31 (54.4)

34 (60.7)

23 (42.6)

24 (43.6)

112 (50.5)

 Lived alone

25 (43.9)

29 (51.8)

27 (50.0)

25 (45.5)

106 (47.7)

 Functional impairment

14 (24.6)

17 (30.4)

18 (33.3)

14 (25.5)

63 (28.4)

 Admissions in 6 months

11 (19.3)

8 (14.3)

19 (35.2)

11 (20.0)

49 (22.1)

 Admission in last 30 days

10 (17.5)

12 (21.4)

13 (24.1)

5 (9.1)

40 (18.0)

 Poor social support

6 (10.5)

11 (21.4)

12 (22.2)

11 (20.0)

41 (18.5)

 History of depression

7 (12.3)

7 (12.5)

8 (14.8)

4 (7.3)

26 (11.7)