Table 1.
Patient sociodemographics, residential history, recent health service use, health conditions, and discharge potential by length of stay group and discharge destination
| Overall (n = 91,113) |
Community Discharge (n = 58,816) |
LTC Discharge (n = 32,297) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Length of Stay Group | Regular-stay | Long-stay (235+ days) | Regular-stay | Long-say (154+ days) | Regular-stay | Long-stay (362+ days) |
| Age Group | ||||||
| 0–64 | 13% | 22% | 15% | 30% | 6% | 21% |
| 65–74 | 16% | 18% | 18% | 22% | 12% | 18% |
| 75–84 | 38% | 35% | 38% | 30% | 39% | 36% |
| 85–94 | 30% | 23% | 26% | 17% | 38% | 23% |
| 95+ | 3% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 4% | 3% |
| Female | 62% | 56% | 62% | 54% | 63% | 56% |
| Married | 37%* | 36%* | 40%* | 40%* | 31%* | 35%* |
| Speaks primarily foreign language | 8% | 10% | 8% | 12% | 8% | 11% |
| Desire to return to community | 82% | 58% | 91% | 73% | 66% | 49% |
| Support person positive towards discharge | 79% | 53% | 87% | 69% | 62% | 45% |
| Lived alone prior to entry | 31% | 27% | 30% | 26% | 32% | 27% |
| Residential History | ||||||
| LTC facility | 8%* | 7%* | 5%* | 5%* | 12% | 7% |
| Psychiatric care facility | 1% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 3% |
| Post-acute care facility | 33% | 35% | 32%* | 33%* | 35%* | 38%* |
| Emergency Department Visits | ||||||
| 1 visit in last 90 days | 56% | 52% | 57% | 54% | 53% | 50% |
| 2+ visits in last 90 days | 22% | 15% | 21% | 15% | 22% | 14% |
| Hospital Admissions | ||||||
| 1 admission in last 90 days | 39% | 34% | 38% | 34% | 42% | 32% |
| 2+ admissions in last 90 days | 8% | 5% | 8% | 5% | 9% | 5% |
| Diseases | ||||||
| Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia | 24% | 33% | 16% | 19% | 39%* | 39%* |
| Aphasia | 4% | 12% | 3% | 10% | 6% | 17% |
| Cancer | 15% | 12% | 15% | 13% | 14% | 10% |
| Emphysema/COPD | 16% | 13% | 17% | 12% | 16%* | 14%* |
| Hemiplegia/Hemiparesis | 8% | 16% | 7% | 20% | 10% | 17% |
| Hip fracture | 15% | 12% | 16% | 11% | 14%* | 11%* |
| Multiple sclerosis | 1% | 2% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 3% |
| Quadriplegia | 0% | 2% | 1%* | 3%* | 0% | 2% |
| Schizophrenia | 1% | 2% | 1%* | 2%* | 2% | 3% |
| Stroke | 20% | 31% | 18% | 31% | 25% | 32% |
| Traumatic brain injury | 1% | 4% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 5% |
| Infections | ||||||
| Antibiotic resistant infection | 6% | 9% | 6% | 11% | 6% | 9% |
| HIV infection | 0.2% | 0.6% | 0.2% | 1.0% | 0.1% | 0.4% |
| Pneumonia | 7%* | 6%* | 7%* | 6%* | 6%* | 5%* |
| Urinary tract infection | 19%* | 17%* | 18%* | 16%* | 22% | 18% |
| Conditions | ||||||
| Bowel or bladder incontinence | 45% | 67% | 36% | 57% | 61% | 69% |
| Hallucinations or delusions | 6% | 9% | 4% | 5% | 9%* | 10%* |
| Unsteady gait | 52% | 39% | 52% | 38% | 51% | 40% |
| Treatments & Therapies | ||||||
| Community skills training | 48% | 32% | 57% | 45% | 31% | 24% |
| Dialysis | 2%* | 2%* | 2% | 3% | 1%* | 2%* |
| Feeding tube | 3% | 9% | 2% | 9% | 3% | 11% |
| Psychological therapy | 13% | 20% | 14% | 19% | 11% | 21% |
| Tracheostomy, ventilator or respirator | 1% | 3% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 2% |
| Trunk, limb or chair restraint | 12% | 20% | 7% | 15% | 20% | 22% |
All length of stay group-based chi-square statistics are significant to p < 0.0004 unless denoted by a *