Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in France
Objective To identify specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death.Design Prospective, multicentre, DAMAGE (Patient Outcomes After Hospitalization in Acute Geriatric Unit) cohort of adults aged 75 and over, discharged from an acute geriatric unit (AGU) and...
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| description | Objective To identify specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death.Design Prospective, multicentre, DAMAGE (Patient Outcomes After Hospitalization in Acute Geriatric Unit) cohort of adults aged 75 and over, discharged from an acute geriatric unit (AGU) and followed up for 12 months.Setting Six recruiting hospital centres in the Hauts-de-France and Normandie regions of France.Main outcome measures We performed a latent class analysis to identify subgroups at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death, followed by a logistic regression analysis to determine the characteristics associated with the identified subgroups.Results 3081 patients were included (mean (SD) age: 86.4 (5.5)) and two subgroups were identified. In subgroup 1 (n=2169, 70.4%), only 619 (28.5%) patients were readmitted to hospital once during the follow-up, and 495 (22.5%) died. In subgroup 2 (n=912, 29.6%), all patients were readmitted to hospital at least twice, and 523 (57.8%) died. Subgroup 2 accounted for 29.6% of patients but 74.4% of hospital readmissions, with longer lengths of stay, and 51.6% of deaths. A multivariate logistic regression analysis identified only four characteristics weakly associated with the risk of being in subgroup 2 (at least one hospital admission in the 6 months preceding the index hospital admission, cancer, polymedication and weight changes (gain or loss) during the index hospital admission). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 63%.Conclusion A latent class analysis showed that a population of older adults hospitalised in an AGU is divided into two subgroups with regard to the postdischarge outcomes: one subgroup (70% of the individuals) will have a low rate of hospital readmission and a moderate death rate, whereas the other will have a high rate of hospital readmission and a very high death rate. There is a need for predictive scores for both events, with a view to better targeting at-risk patients.Trial registration number Trial registration number was approved by the local independent ethics committee (CPP Nord-Ouest IV, Lille, France) on 13 February 2015, with an amendment approved on 21 January 2016 (reference: IDRCB 2014 A01670 47, CNIL bxA15352514). |
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| spelling | doaj-art-dff9eb532e1a4c278a432562d5173e462025-01-15T05:25:09ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Open2044-60552025-01-0115110.1136/bmjopen-2024-085004Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in FranceJean-Baptiste Beuscart0Fabien Visade1Genia Babykina2Jesus Carretero-Bravo3Guillaume Deschasse4Vincent Vandewalle5Univ. Lille, CHU Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, FranceDepartment of Geriatrics, Universite Catholique de Lille, Lille, FranceUniv. Lille, CHU Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, FranceUniversity of Cádiz, Cadiz, SpainUniv. Lille, CHU Lille, ULR 2694 - METRICS: Évaluation des Technologies de Santé et des Pratiques Médicales, Lille, FranceUniversité Côte d’Azur, Inria, CNRS, LJAD, FranceObjective To identify specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death.Design Prospective, multicentre, DAMAGE (Patient Outcomes After Hospitalization in Acute Geriatric Unit) cohort of adults aged 75 and over, discharged from an acute geriatric unit (AGU) and followed up for 12 months.Setting Six recruiting hospital centres in the Hauts-de-France and Normandie regions of France.Main outcome measures We performed a latent class analysis to identify subgroups at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death, followed by a logistic regression analysis to determine the characteristics associated with the identified subgroups.Results 3081 patients were included (mean (SD) age: 86.4 (5.5)) and two subgroups were identified. In subgroup 1 (n=2169, 70.4%), only 619 (28.5%) patients were readmitted to hospital once during the follow-up, and 495 (22.5%) died. In subgroup 2 (n=912, 29.6%), all patients were readmitted to hospital at least twice, and 523 (57.8%) died. Subgroup 2 accounted for 29.6% of patients but 74.4% of hospital readmissions, with longer lengths of stay, and 51.6% of deaths. A multivariate logistic regression analysis identified only four characteristics weakly associated with the risk of being in subgroup 2 (at least one hospital admission in the 6 months preceding the index hospital admission, cancer, polymedication and weight changes (gain or loss) during the index hospital admission). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was 63%.Conclusion A latent class analysis showed that a population of older adults hospitalised in an AGU is divided into two subgroups with regard to the postdischarge outcomes: one subgroup (70% of the individuals) will have a low rate of hospital readmission and a moderate death rate, whereas the other will have a high rate of hospital readmission and a very high death rate. There is a need for predictive scores for both events, with a view to better targeting at-risk patients.Trial registration number Trial registration number was approved by the local independent ethics committee (CPP Nord-Ouest IV, Lille, France) on 13 February 2015, with an amendment approved on 21 January 2016 (reference: IDRCB 2014 A01670 47, CNIL bxA15352514).https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/1/e085004.full |
| spellingShingle | Jean-Baptiste Beuscart Fabien Visade Genia Babykina Jesus Carretero-Bravo Guillaume Deschasse Vincent Vandewalle Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in France BMJ Open |
| title | Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in France |
| title_full | Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in France |
| title_fullStr | Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in France |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in France |
| title_short | Identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in France |
| title_sort | identifying specific subgroups of older patients at risk of repeated hospital readmissions and death after discharge in a prospective multicentre cohort in france |
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