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The Impact of Health Information Exchange on In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality in Older Adults with Alzheimer Disease Readmitted to a Different Hospital Within 30 Days of Discharge: Cohort Study of Medicare Beneficiaries

BACKGROUND: Although electronic health information sharing is expanding nationally, it is unclear whether electronic health information sharing improves patient outcomes, particularly for patients who are at the highest risk of communication challenges, such as older adults with Alzheimer disease. O...

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Autores principales: Turbow, Sara, Vaughan, Camille P, Culler, Steven D, Hepburn, Kenneth W, Rask, Kimberly J, Perkins, Molly M, Clevenger, Carolyn K, Ali, Mohammed K
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Publicado: JMIR Publications 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10039413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36897638
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/41936
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author Turbow, Sara
Vaughan, Camille P
Culler, Steven D
Hepburn, Kenneth W
Rask, Kimberly J
Perkins, Molly M
Clevenger, Carolyn K
Ali, Mohammed K
author_facet Turbow, Sara
Vaughan, Camille P
Culler, Steven D
Hepburn, Kenneth W
Rask, Kimberly J
Perkins, Molly M
Clevenger, Carolyn K
Ali, Mohammed K
author_sort Turbow, Sara
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description BACKGROUND: Although electronic health information sharing is expanding nationally, it is unclear whether electronic health information sharing improves patient outcomes, particularly for patients who are at the highest risk of communication challenges, such as older adults with Alzheimer disease. OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between hospital-level health information exchange (HIE) participation and in-hospital or postdischarge mortality among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease or 30-day readmissions to a different hospital following an admission for one of several common conditions. METHODS: This was a cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease who had one or more 30-day readmissions in 2018 following an initial admission for select Hospital Readmission Reduction Program conditions (acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia) or common reasons for hospitalization among older adults with Alzheimer disease (dehydration, syncope, urinary tract infection, or behavioral issues). Using unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression, we examined the association between electronic information sharing and in-hospital mortality during the readmission or mortality in the 30 days following the readmission. RESULTS: A total of 28,946 admission-readmission pairs were included. Beneficiaries with same-hospital readmissions were older (aged 81.1, SD 8.6 years) than beneficiaries with readmissions to different hospitals (age range 79.8-80.3 years, P<.001). Compared to admissions and readmissions to the same hospital, beneficiaries who had a readmission to a different hospital that shared an HIE with the admission hospital had 39% lower odds of dying during the readmission (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 0.61, 95% CI 0.39-0.95). There were no differences in in-hospital mortality observed for admission-readmission pairs to different hospitals that participated in different HIEs (AOR 1.02, 95% CI 0.82-1.28) or to different hospitals where one or both hospitals did not participate in HIE (AOR 1.25, 95% CI 0.93-1.68), and there was no association between information sharing and postdischarge mortality. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that information sharing between unrelated hospitals via a shared HIE may be associated with lower in-hospital, but not postdischarge, mortality for older adults with Alzheimer disease. In-hospital mortality during a readmission to a different hospital was higher if the admission and readmission hospitals participated in different HIEs or if one or both hospitals did not participate in an HIE. Limitations of this analysis include that HIE participation was measured at the hospital level, rather than at the provider level. This study provides some evidence that HIEs can improve care for vulnerable populations receiving acute care from different hospitals.
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spelling pubmed-100394132023-03-26 The Impact of Health Information Exchange on In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality in Older Adults with Alzheimer Disease Readmitted to a Different Hospital Within 30 Days of Discharge: Cohort Study of Medicare Beneficiaries Turbow, Sara Vaughan, Camille P Culler, Steven D Hepburn, Kenneth W Rask, Kimberly J Perkins, Molly M Clevenger, Carolyn K Ali, Mohammed K JMIR Aging Original Paper BACKGROUND: Although electronic health information sharing is expanding nationally, it is unclear whether electronic health information sharing improves patient outcomes, particularly for patients who are at the highest risk of communication challenges, such as older adults with Alzheimer disease. OBJECTIVE: To determine the association between hospital-level health information exchange (HIE) participation and in-hospital or postdischarge mortality among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease or 30-day readmissions to a different hospital following an admission for one of several common conditions. METHODS: This was a cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer disease who had one or more 30-day readmissions in 2018 following an initial admission for select Hospital Readmission Reduction Program conditions (acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia) or common reasons for hospitalization among older adults with Alzheimer disease (dehydration, syncope, urinary tract infection, or behavioral issues). Using unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression, we examined the association between electronic information sharing and in-hospital mortality during the readmission or mortality in the 30 days following the readmission. RESULTS: A total of 28,946 admission-readmission pairs were included. Beneficiaries with same-hospital readmissions were older (aged 81.1, SD 8.6 years) than beneficiaries with readmissions to different hospitals (age range 79.8-80.3 years, P<.001). Compared to admissions and readmissions to the same hospital, beneficiaries who had a readmission to a different hospital that shared an HIE with the admission hospital had 39% lower odds of dying during the readmission (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] 0.61, 95% CI 0.39-0.95). There were no differences in in-hospital mortality observed for admission-readmission pairs to different hospitals that participated in different HIEs (AOR 1.02, 95% CI 0.82-1.28) or to different hospitals where one or both hospitals did not participate in HIE (AOR 1.25, 95% CI 0.93-1.68), and there was no association between information sharing and postdischarge mortality. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that information sharing between unrelated hospitals via a shared HIE may be associated with lower in-hospital, but not postdischarge, mortality for older adults with Alzheimer disease. In-hospital mortality during a readmission to a different hospital was higher if the admission and readmission hospitals participated in different HIEs or if one or both hospitals did not participate in an HIE. Limitations of this analysis include that HIE participation was measured at the hospital level, rather than at the provider level. This study provides some evidence that HIEs can improve care for vulnerable populations receiving acute care from different hospitals. JMIR Publications 2023-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10039413/ /pubmed/36897638 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/41936 Text en ©Sara Turbow, Camille P Vaughan, Steven D Culler, Kenneth W Hepburn, Kimberly J Rask, Molly M Perkins, Carolyn K Clevenger, Mohammed K Ali. Originally published in JMIR Aging (https://aging.jmir.org), 10.03.2023. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Aging, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://aging.jmir.org, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
spellingShingle Original Paper
Turbow, Sara
Vaughan, Camille P
Culler, Steven D
Hepburn, Kenneth W
Rask, Kimberly J
Perkins, Molly M
Clevenger, Carolyn K
Ali, Mohammed K
The Impact of Health Information Exchange on In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality in Older Adults with Alzheimer Disease Readmitted to a Different Hospital Within 30 Days of Discharge: Cohort Study of Medicare Beneficiaries
title The Impact of Health Information Exchange on In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality in Older Adults with Alzheimer Disease Readmitted to a Different Hospital Within 30 Days of Discharge: Cohort Study of Medicare Beneficiaries
title_full The Impact of Health Information Exchange on In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality in Older Adults with Alzheimer Disease Readmitted to a Different Hospital Within 30 Days of Discharge: Cohort Study of Medicare Beneficiaries
title_fullStr The Impact of Health Information Exchange on In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality in Older Adults with Alzheimer Disease Readmitted to a Different Hospital Within 30 Days of Discharge: Cohort Study of Medicare Beneficiaries
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of Health Information Exchange on In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality in Older Adults with Alzheimer Disease Readmitted to a Different Hospital Within 30 Days of Discharge: Cohort Study of Medicare Beneficiaries
title_short The Impact of Health Information Exchange on In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality in Older Adults with Alzheimer Disease Readmitted to a Different Hospital Within 30 Days of Discharge: Cohort Study of Medicare Beneficiaries
title_sort impact of health information exchange on in-hospital and postdischarge mortality in older adults with alzheimer disease readmitted to a different hospital within 30 days of discharge: cohort study of medicare beneficiaries
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10039413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36897638
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/41936
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