Key result
Patient characteristics, hospital size, and location are linked to acute care readmission in cancer patients.
Why the study?
What are the risk factors associated with all-cause readmission in cancer patients?
Observational
Yes
What are the risk factors associated with all-cause readmission in cancer patients?
Patient, hospital, and community-level factors are associated with higher readmission rates in cancer patients.
May inform readmission risk models; leaves open whether interventions targeting these factors improve outcomes.
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.
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Ji et al. (2012) conducted an observational in Cancer. Patient, hospital, and community risk factors was evaluated on All-cause readmission to acute care. Patient characteristics, hospital size, and rural or urban location were associated with all-cause readmission to acute care for cancer patients.
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