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Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Model for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction.

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Dodson, JA; Hajduk, AM; Murphy, TE; Geda, M; Krumholz, HM; Tsang, S; Nanna, MG; Tinetti, ME; Goldstein, D; Forman, DE; Alexander, KP; Gill, TM ...
Published in: Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes
May 2019

BACKGROUND: Early readmissions among older adults hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are costly and difficult to predict. Aging-related functional impairments may inform risk prediction but are unavailable in most studies. Our objective was to, therefore, develop and validate an AMI readmission risk model for older patients who considered functional impairments and was suitable for use before hospital discharge. METHODS AND RESULTS: SILVER-AMI (Comprehensive Evaluation of Risk in Older Adults with AMI) is a prospective cohort study of 3006 patients of age ≥75 years hospitalized with AMI at 94 US hospitals. Participants underwent in-hospital assessment of functional impairments including cognition, vision, hearing, and mobility. Other variables plausibly associated with readmissions were also collected. The outcome was all-cause readmission at 30 days. We used backward selection and Bayesian model averaging to derive (N=2004) a risk model that was subsequently validated (N=1002). Mean age was 81.5 years, 44.4% were women, and 10.5% were nonwhite. Within 30 days, 547 participants (18.2%) were readmitted. Readmitted participants were older, had more comorbidities, and had a higher prevalence of functional impairments, including activities of daily living disability (17.0% versus 13.0%; P=0.013) and impaired functional mobility (72.5% versus 53.6%; P<0.001). The final risk model included 8 variables: functional mobility, ejection fraction, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, arrhythmia, acute kidney injury, first diastolic blood pressure, P2Y12 inhibitor use, and general health status. Functional mobility was the only functional impairment variable retained but was the strongest predictor. The model was well calibrated (Hosmer-Lemeshow P value >0.05) with moderate discrimination (C statistics: 0.65 derivation cohort and 0.63 validation cohort). Functional mobility significantly improved performance of the risk model (net reclassification improvement index =20%; P<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: In our final risk model, functional mobility, previously not included in readmission risk models, was the strongest predictor of 30-day readmission among older adults after AMI. The modest discrimination indicates that much of the variability in readmission risk among this population remains unexplained by patient-level factors. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION: URL: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01755052.

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Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes

DOI

EISSN

1941-7705

Publication Date

May 2019

Volume

12

Issue

5

Start / End Page

e005320

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Time Factors
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk Assessment
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Prospective Studies
  • Predictive Value of Tests
  • Patient Readmission
  • Patient Admission
 

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Dodson, J. A., Hajduk, A. M., Murphy, T. E., Geda, M., Krumholz, H. M., Tsang, S., … Chaudhry, S. I. (2019). Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Model for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, 12(5), e005320. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.005320
Dodson, John A., Alexandra M. Hajduk, Terrence E. Murphy, Mary Geda, Harlan M. Krumholz, Sui Tsang, Michael G. Nanna, et al. “Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Model for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction.Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes 12, no. 5 (May 2019): e005320. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.005320.
Dodson JA, Hajduk AM, Murphy TE, Geda M, Krumholz HM, Tsang S, et al. Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Model for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2019 May;12(5):e005320.
Dodson, John A., et al. “Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Model for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction.Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes, vol. 12, no. 5, May 2019, p. e005320. Pubmed, doi:10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.118.005320.
Dodson JA, Hajduk AM, Murphy TE, Geda M, Krumholz HM, Tsang S, Nanna MG, Tinetti ME, Goldstein D, Forman DE, Alexander KP, Gill TM, Chaudhry SI. Thirty-Day Readmission Risk Model for Older Adults Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2019 May;12(5):e005320.

Published In

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes

DOI

EISSN

1941-7705

Publication Date

May 2019

Volume

12

Issue

5

Start / End Page

e005320

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Treatment Outcome
  • Time Factors
  • Risk Factors
  • Risk Assessment
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Prospective Studies
  • Predictive Value of Tests
  • Patient Readmission
  • Patient Admission