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Identifying Targets to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes for Patients Receiving Home Healthcare Services
- Source :
- Home Healthc Now
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2020.
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Abstract
- Heart failure (HF) is one of the leading causes of rehospitalization in the United States. Due to the complex nature of HF, the provision of Medicare-certified home healthcare services has increased. Medicare-certified home healthcare agencies measure and report patients' outcomes such as functional status, activities of daily living (ADL), and instrumental activities of daily living to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. These metrics are assessed using the Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS). As a large data set, OASIS has been used to advance care quality in multiple ways including identifying risk factors for negative patient outcomes. However, there is a lack of OASIS analyses to assess the relationship between functional status and the role of other factors, such as pain, in impeding recovery after hospitalization among HF patients. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between functional status and pain using the OASIS database. Among 489 HF patients admitted to home healthcare, 83% were White, 57% were female, and the median age was 80. Patients who reported daily but not constant activity-interfering pain at discharge demonstrated the least improvement in functional performance as measured by ADLs, whereas patients without activity-interfering pain demonstrated the greatest improvement in ADL performance (p value = 0.0284). Tracking individual patient ADL scores, particularly the frequency of activity-interfering pain, could be a key indicator for clinical focus for patients with HF in the home healthcare setting.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Activities of daily living
MEDLINE
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Medicare
Severity of Illness Index
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Health care
medicine
Humans
Disabled Persons
030212 general & internal medicine
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Heart Failure
Cardiac Rehabilitation
business.industry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Home Care Services
Patient Discharge
United States
Heart failure
Physical therapy
Female
Functional status
business
Medicaid
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23744529
- Volume :
- 38
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Home Healthcare Now
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fc74ba8f9a984db99a46570cd7bea5ac