Factors of Hospitals Associated With an Independent Hospice Care Unit
| Autor: | Hyejung Chang, Hyun Chul Shin, Young-Taek Park |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Advanced and Specialized Nursing
Community and Home Care medicine.medical_specialty palliative care business.industry Nurse staffing Hospices MEDLINE Odds ratio Nursing Staff Hospital Feature Articles Confidence interval Odds Cross-Sectional Studies Hospice Care health care delivery systems hospice Disease severity Republic of Korea Emergency medicine medicine Health insurance Humans business Hospice care |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing |
| ISSN: | 1539-0705 1522-2179 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/njh.0000000000000806 |
| Popis: | Few studies have examined why some hospitals operate independent hospice units (IHUs) and others do not. This study aims to investigate the organizational factors of hospitals having IHU. The units of analysis were individual hospitals. The study had a cross-sectional design and used health insurance claims data of 349 hospitals in Korea from January 1 to December 31, 2019. The dependent variable was whether a hospital operated an IHU. The independent variables were the percentage of patients with cancer, overall severity of patients, percentage of patients 60 years and older, health care cost per patient, percentage of inpatients, and nurse staffing level. Independent hospice units were present at 21.2% of the hospitals (74/349). The odds of having an IHU were significantly associated with the following factors: the percentage of patients with cancer (odds ratio [OR], 1.228; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.071-1.408; P = .003), disease severity (OR, 5.129; 95% CI, 2.477-10.622; P < .001), percentage of patients 60 years and older (OR, 1.053; 95% CI, 1.015-1.092; P = .006), health care cost per patient (OR, 1.018; 95% CI, 1.009-1.027; P < .001), and nurse staffing level (OR, 0.439; 95% CI, 0.292-0.661; P < .001). The organizational factors of hospitals operating IHUs were similar to those of hospice facilities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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