Frequency of Hospital Use Before and After Home-Delivery Meal by Meals On Wheels, of Tarrant County, Texas
| Autor: | Jennifer L. Thorud, Alan B. Stevens, Sherry Marishak-Simon, Jinmyoung Cho, L. Hammack |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0301 basic medicine
Gerontology Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Vulnerable adult Medicine (miscellaneous) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health care Medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Hospital use Aged Receipt Aged 80 and over Meal 030109 nutrition & dietetics Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry digestive oral and skin physiology Food Services Emergency department Middle Aged Texas Hospitals United States Healthcare utilization Emergency medicine Female Geriatrics and Gerontology business Delivery of Health Care Independent living |
| Zdroj: | The journal of nutrition, healthaging. 22(4) |
| ISSN: | 1760-4788 |
| Popis: | Patients recently discharged from the hospital are vulnerable and are at high risk for readmission. Home-delivered meals may be beneficial in improving their health and facilitating independent living in the community. The purpose of this study was to identify the association between home-delivered meals and use of hospital services. This study includes 120 clients recently discharged from an inpatient hospital stay or from an emergency department (ED) visit who received meal services from Meals On Wheels, Inc., of Tarrant County. Healthcare utilization data was extracted from the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation, a regional all claims database used by over 90% of hospitals in Dallas-Fort Worth area. Signed tests and generalized linear models (GLM) were performed. A total of 16,959 meals were delivered from March 2013 through March 2014. Each client received an average of 6.19 meals per week. The average number of ED visits decreased from 5.03 before receipt of meals to 1.45 after receipt of meals, z = -5.23, p |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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