6 Things to Know Following Long-Term Acute Care Among Medicare Beneficiaries: Study

  1. The median survival duration was 8.3 months.
  2. The 5‐year survival rate was only 18%.
  3. 53% of the patients did not live 60 consecutive days without inpatient care.
  4. The median percentage of their remaining life spent as an inpatient was 65.6%.
  5. 36.9% died in an inpatient setting
  6. never having returned home after the long-term acute care admission.
  7. Only 1% had a palliative care physician consultation.
Notes: Notes: From a study of 14,072 hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries who had been transfered to a long-term acute care hospital from 2009 to 2013, "The Clinical Course after Long‐Term Acute Care Hospital Admission among Older Medicare Beneficiaries," by Anil N. Makam, MD, MAS; Thu Tran, BA; Michael E. Miller, MS; Lei Xuan, PhD; Oanh Kieu Nguyen, MD, MAS; Ethan A. Halm MD, MPH, MBA.

Source: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jgs.16106

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