Table 2.
Kaplan-Meier mortality and rehospitalization*
Clinical Outcome | Living Alone (N=471) |
Not Living Alone (N=1793) |
p-value |
---|---|---|---|
30-Day mortality | 6 (1.3%) | 19 (1.1%) | 0.697 |
1-Year mortality | 37 (7.9%) | 96 (5.4%) | 0.039 |
4-Year mortality | 102 (21.8%) | 256 (14.5%) | <0.001 |
1-Year readmission | 161 (41.6%) | 606 (38.3%) | 0.792 |
Data on mortality were collected through linkage to the Social Security Death Master File whereas data on readmission were collected via self-report. Data are reported as number (percentage) of patients.