PMID: 8966747Oct 1, 1996Paper

Hospital admission of nursing home patients considered but not carried out: role of the nursing home physician and the involved parties and various differences with realized hospital admissions

Tijdschrift voor gerontologie en geriatrie
J W KoningsMiel W Ribbe

Abstract

The objective of the study was to establish in which way nursing home patients, for whom is refrained from hospitalization, differ from hospitalized nursing home patients. The question was also raised of how the decision to refrain from hospitalization is taken: which point of view and method the nursing home physician has, on which arguments decisions are based and which parties are involved and in which way. The design of the study was retrospective and descriptive. Data obtained from semi-structured interviews held in 1987 with 24 nursing home physicians on 45 situations were compared with registration data on 387 hospitalizations of patients from 30 nursing homes. In the non-hospitalized patients malignancies were relatively more frequent than in the hospitalized patients (29% versus 7%). The mean age of hospitalized patients was 78 and of non-hospitalized patients 80 years. The physical condition of non-hospitalized patients was more frequently judged as poor and the life expectancy as more limited. Already at an early stage nursing home physicians appeared to have a point of view, with which they determined the decision making procedure: in favour of (40%), opposing (35%) and in doubt of hospitalization (25%). In 'non-hos...Continue Reading

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