Study | Number of patients | Non-home discharge | Discharge destination | Factors associated with non-home discharge | Factors not associated with non-home discharge | |
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N | % | |||||
Badgwell, 2013 [2] | 111 | 11 | 10 | Skilled nursing facility (including inpatient rehabilitation facilities) | Weight loss ≥ 10% (OR 6.52, 95% CI 1.43–29.76), ASA score ≥ 2 (OR 5.08, 95% CI 1.13–22.78), ECOG performance status ≥ 2 (OR 4.51, 95% CI 1.03–19.71) | Polypharmacy (OR 1.33, 95% CI 0.38–4.64), distant stage cancer (OR 0.54, 95% CI 0.11–2.64) |
Blakoe, 2015 [61] | 79 | NR | NR | Another hospital | Frailty (OR 6, P = 0.002) | NR |
Courtney-Brooks, 2012 [38] | 37 | 1 | 2.7 | Skilled nursing facility | NR | Frailty (P = 0.25) |
Dasgupta, 2009 [7] | 125 | NR | NR | Institution | Age (P = 0.0009), Edmonton Frailty Scale score (P = 0.013) | NR |
Kim, 2013 [51] | 141 | 26 | 19.3 | Nursing home, transitional care facility, or acute care facility | NR | Cumulative number of impairments on CGA (OR 1.216, 95% CI 0.864–1.712, for death or post-discharge institutionalization) |
Kim, 2014 [40] | 275 | 24 | 8.7 | Nursing home, transitional care, or any long-term care facility | Frailty (OR 1.42, 95% CI 1.09–1.86) | NR |
Kim, 2016 [37] | 197 | 27 | 13.7 | Nursing home | Mobility assessment tool – short form (OR 2.01, 95% CI 1.13–3.56), intermediately frail/frail (OR 3.11, 95% CI 1.02–9.54), age (OR 1.15, 95% CI 1.05–1.27), preoperative pain score (OR 0.83, 95% CI 0.70–0.99) | NR |
Kothari, 2011 [45] | 60 | 6 | 10 | Location other than home | IADL score for ‘shopping’ (P = 0.003) | IADL scores (food preparation, housekeeping, laundry, medications, managing money, telephone usage, transportation), NSI Nutritional Health Checklist, GDS |
Legner, 2004 [66] | 586 | 43 | 14 | Nursing home | Age 70–74 years vs. < 65 years (OR 5.4, 95% CI 1.9–15.7), 75–79 years (OR 10.5, 95% CI 3.7–29.5), ≥ 80 years (OR 16.3, 95% CI 5.5–48.7) | Age 65–69 years vs. < 65 years (OR 2.5, 95% CI 0.8–8.3) |
Makary, 2010 [29] | 594 | NR | NR | Skilled or assisted-living facility | Frailty (OR 20.48, 95% CI 5.54–75.68) | NR |
Min, 2015 [65] | 49 | NR | NR | All non-home locations | NR | Any of the baseline geriatric assessments |
Robinson, 2012 [25] | 186 | 52 | 29 | Institutional care facility (i.e., nursing home, skilled nursing facility or rehabilitation centre) | Impaired cognition (OR 3.01, 95% CI 1.55–5.86) | NR |
Williams, 2013 [53] | 148 | 47 | 31.8 | Healthcare facility | NR | Anxiety vs. none (OR 2.29, 95% CI 0.65–8.10) |