Incidence of short-term community hospital stays and clinical profiles of patients: the Finnish Community Hospital Cohort Study

Autor:	Henna Saari, Eija Lönnroos, Hannu Kautiainen, Simo Kokko, Olli-Pekka Ryynänen, Pekka Mäntyselkä
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Community hospitals local hospitals incidence rate hospital stay integrated care older adults Public aspects of medicine RA1-1270
Zdroj:	Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, Vol 42, Iss 1, Pp 82-90 (2024)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	02813432 1502-7724 0281-3432
DOI:	10.1080/02813432.2023.2291671
Popis:	AbstractObjective A community hospital system covers the entire population of Finland. Yet there is little research on the system beyond routine statistics. More knowledge is needed on the incidence of hospital stays and patient profiles. We investigated the incidence of short-term community hospital stays and the features of care and patients.Design Prospective observational study.Setting Community hospitals in the catchment area of Kuopio University Hospital in Finland.Subjects Short-term (up to one month) community hospital stays of adult residents.Main outcome measures The outcome was the incidence rate of short-term community hospital stays according to age, sex and the first underlying diagnoses.Results A number of 13,482 short-term community hospital stays were analyzed. The patients’ mean age was 77 years. The incidence rate of short-term hospital stays was 28.6 stays per 1000 person-years among residents aged
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