Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics among patients discharged from the Mobile Acute Care for the Elderly service from 1 July 2007 to 30 June 2008
| Overall (n=514) | Patient-clinical team discharge disposition | p Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agreement (n=472) | Disagreement (n=42) | |||
| Mean age (SD) (years) | 83.1 (8.3) | 82.9 (8.4) | 84.5 (7.3) | 0.23 |
| Sex (%) | 0.77 | |||
| Female | 75.7 | 75.9 | 73.8 | |
| Male | 24.3 | 24.2 | 26.2 | |
| Race/ethnicity (%) | 0.90 | |||
| Caucasian | 35.8 | 35.4 | 40.5 | |
| African-American | 27.6 | 28.0 | 23.8 | |
| Hispanic | 34.6 | 34.8 | 33.3 | |
| Other | 1.9 | 1.9 | 2.4 | |
| Primary language (%) | 0.25 | |||
| English | 69.6 | 68.9 | 77.5 | |
| Other | 30.4 | 31.1 | 22.5 | |
| Marital status (%) | 0.67 | |||
| Married | 20.2 | 19.9 | 23.8 | |
| Widowed | 45.5 | 45.3 | 47.6 | |
| Divorced/separated | 13.0 | 13.6 | 7.1 | |
| Single, never married | 21.2 | 21.2 | 21.4 | |
| Living situation prior to hospitalisation, (%) | 0.006 | |||
| Home alone with no home-health-aid services | 14.6 | 15.3 | 7.3 | |
| Home alone with home-health-aid services | 33.5 | 34.2 | 26.8 | |
| Home with family with no home-health-aid services | 16.1 | 16.6 | 9.8 | |
| Home with family and home-health-aid services | 26.0 | 25.7 | 29.3 | |
| Assisted living facility | 5.7 | 5.3 | 9.8 | |
| Sub-acute rehabilitation facility | 4.1 | 2.9 | 17.1 | |
| Hospital health insurance (%) | 0.22 | |||
| Fee-for-service medicare (Part A) | 92.8 | 92.6 | 95.2 | |
| Medicare/medicaid dual eligible | 3.3 | 3.6 | 0.0 | |
| Private commercial | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.8 | |
| Cognitive impairment (%) | 0.69 | |||
| Present | 47.1 | 46.8 | 50.0 | |
| Absent | 52.9 | 53.2 | 50.0 | |
| Ambulation dependence (%) | 0.12 | |||
| Walks independently | 21.9 | 23.0 | 10.3 | |
| Walks with assist device | 68.1 | 67.1 | 79.5 | |
| Wheel chair bound | 7.9 | 8.2 | 5.1 | |
| Bed bound | 2.1 | 1.8 | 5.1 | |
| Functional independence (%) | 0.04 | |||
| Independent | 20.7 | 21.8 | 7.7 | |
| IADL dependent | 22.9 | 23.2 | 20.5 | |
| ADL and IADL dependent | 56.4 | 55.1 | 71.8 | |
| Mean Elixhauser Comorbidity Index (SD) | 3.4 (1.6) | 3.4 (1.6) | 3.4 (1.8) | 0.74 |
| No. active prescriptions (%) | 0.07 | |||
| 0–5 | 8.4 | 9.0 | 2.4 | |
| 6–10 | 33.9 | 33.1 | 42.9 | |
| 11–15 | 38.4 | 37.8 | 45.2 | |
| >15 | 19.2 | 20.1 | 9.5 | |
Column percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.
ADL, activities of daily living; IADL, independent activities of daily living.