Table 3.

Comparison of post–acute care use at discharge and hospital-based acute care use within 30 days of hospitalization, according to sepsis status during index admission

Outcomes, n (%)	Nonsepsis Hospitalization (n = 108,958)	Sepsis Hospitalization (n = 3,620)
Post–acute care use at discharge*
Home with home services	34,208 (31.4)	1,048 (28.9)
Acute rehabilitation	4,680 (4.3)	228 (6.3)
Skilled nursing facility	11,602 (10.6)	812 (22.4)
Long-term acute care hospital	408 (0.4)	199 (5.5)
Hospital readmissions
7-d readmission†	5,657 (5.2)	336 (9.3)
30-d readmission†	16,950 (15.6)	959 (26.5)
90-d readmission†	27,968 (25.7)	1,533 (42.4)
ED visits (treat and release)
30-d ED visit‡§	4,967 (4.6)	139 (3.8)
Hospital-based acute care postdischarge
30-d ED visit or readmission*	21,917 (20.1)	1,098 (30.3)
Post–acute care use within 30 d†║	62,406 (57.3)	2,689 (74.3)

Definition of abbreviation: ED = emergency department.

Categorical variables are reported as count and percentage.

^*Post–acute care use at discharge includes home health services and skilled care facility placement.

^†P < 0.001 for each comparison.

^‡P = 0.04.

^§Of 15,414 ED encounters within 30 days of a nonsepsis index admission, 10,447 (67.8%) resulted in readmission; of 720 ED encounters within 30 days of a sepsis index admission, 581 (80.7%) resulted in readmission.

^║Post–acute care use within 30 days includes post–acute care use at discharge and hospital-based acute care postdischarge.