Ji Hong, Abushomar Hani, Chen Xi-Kuan, Qian Cheng, Gerson Darren
Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).
Healthc Q. 2012;15(3):14-6. doi: 10.12927/hcq.2013.23044.
A recent Canadian Institute for Health Information report on all-cause readmission identified that cancer patients had higher-than-average readmission rates. This study provides further insight on the experience of cancer patients, exploring the risk factors associated with readmission at patient, hospital and community levels. An analysis showed that patient characteristics, including the reason for initial hospitalization, sex, co-morbidity levels, admission through the emergency department and the number of previous acute care admissions, were associated with readmission for cancer patients. In addition, we found that the readmission rate for these patients varied by hospital size and whether the patients lived in rural or urban locations.
加拿大卫生信息研究所最近一份关于全因再入院情况的报告指出，癌症患者的再入院率高于平均水平。本研究进一步深入了解了癌症患者的情况，探讨了患者、医院和社区层面与再入院相关的风险因素。一项分析表明，患者特征，包括初次住院原因、性别、合并症水平、通过急诊科入院以及既往急性护理入院次数，都与癌症患者的再入院有关。此外，我们发现这些患者的再入院率因医院规模以及患者居住在农村还是城市地区而有所不同。
