CDC releases data on nursing home resident emergency department visits
Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, May 6, 2010
The National Center for Health Statistics recently unveiled data from the 2004 National Nursing Home Survey. At the time the survey was conducted, 8% of U.S. nursing home residents had an emergency department visit at some point during the previous 90 days. It was determined that 40% of those visits, which accounted for 50,300 residents, were potentially preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In addition, of the 8%, which totaled 123,600 residents, 15% (18,400 residents) had two or more emergency department visits. Injuries from falls were the most common conditions accounting for potentially preventable emergency department visits. Nursing home residents who had a potentially preventable visit typically had shorter lengths of stay and were given more medications, the survey found.
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