Predicting the need for supportive services after discharged from hospital: a systematic review

Table 1 Studies

Study	Participants and Setting	Design	Sample size derivation cohort	Validation type and sample size	Mean age of derivation cohort	Most common admitting diagnoses	Prognostic data collection timeframe^a	Outcome
Fairchild et al., 1998 [15]	General medicine patients in an urban teaching hospital	Single center prospective cohort	387	Internal, n = 327	55	Chest pain	< 24 h	Use of post-discharge medical services
						Heart failure and shock
						Bronchitis and asthma with complications
Simonet et al., 2008 [20]	General medicine patients in a teaching hospital	Single center prospective cohort	349	Internal, n = 161	65	Not provided	< 24 h	Discharge to a post-acute care facility
Mehta et al., 2011 [16]	General medicine patients in a teaching hospital	Multicenter prospective cohort	885	External, n = 753	78	Chronic lung disease	< 24 h	Need for ADL support
						Peripheral vascular disease
						Congestive heart failure
Stineman et al., 2014 [18]	Veterans hospitals stroke patients	Multicenter retrospective cohort	3909	Internal, n = 2606	69	Stroke	Throughout hospitalization	Home discharge
Tapper et al., 2015 [19]	Liver transplant unit in an academic hospital	Single center retrospective cohort	490	Internal, n = 244	57	Encephalopathy	< 24 h	Discharge to rehabilitation
						Ascites
						Gastrointestinal bleeding
Basic et al., 2015 [17]	Patients admitted under geriatricians with geriatric issues	Single Center Prospective Cohort	1055	Internal n = 1070	83	Dementia	During the Hospitalization	New Admission to a Nursing Home
						Delirium
						Deconditioning

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