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Background<\/strong> \u2014 Functional decline is common following acute hospitalization and is associated with hospital readmission, institutionalization, and mortality. People with functional decline may have difficulty accessing post-discharge medical care, even though early physician follow-up has the potential to prevent poor outcomes and is integral to high-quality transitional care. We sought to determine whether recent functional decline was associated with lower rates of post-discharge physician follow-up, and whether this association changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, given that both functional decline and COVID-19 may affect access to post-discharge care.<\/p>\n

Method<\/strong> \u2014 We conducted a retrospective cohort study using health administrative data from Ontario, Canada. We included patients over 65 who were discharged from an acute care facility during March 1st, 2019 \u2013 January 31st, 2020 (pre-COVID-19 period), and March 1st, 2020 \u2013 January 31st, 2021 (COVID-19 period), and who were assessed for home care while in hospital. Patients with and without functional decline were compared. Our primary outcome was any physician follow-up visit within 7 days of discharge. We used propensity score weighting to compare outcomes between those with and without functional decline.<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong> \u2014 Our study included 21,771 (pre-COVID) and 17,248 (COVID) hospitalized patients, of whom 15,637 (71.8%) and 12,965 (75.2%) had recent functional decline. Pre-COVID, there was no difference in physician follow-up within 7 days of discharge (Functional decline 45.0% vs. No functional decline 44.0%; RR\u2009=\u20091.02, 95% CI 0.98\u20131.06). These results did not change in the COVID-19 period (Functional decline 51.1% vs. No functional decline 49.4%; RR\u2009=\u20091.03, 95% CI 0.99\u20131.08, Z-test for interaction p\u2009=\u20090.72). In the COVID-19 cohort, functional decline was associated with having a 7-day physician virtual visit (RR 1.15; 95% CI 1.08\u20131.24) and a 7-day physician home visit (RR 1.64; 95% CI 1.10\u20132.43).<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/strong> \u2014 Functional decline was not associated with reduced 7-day post-discharge physician follow-up in either the pre-COVID-19 or COVID-19 periods. In the COVID-19 period, functional decline was positively associated with 7-day virtual and home-visit follow-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Background \u2014 Functional decline is common following acute hospitalization and is associated with hospital readmission, institutionalization, and mortality. People with functional decline may have difficulty accessing post-discharge medical care, even though early physician follow-up has the potential to prevent poor outcomes and is integral to high-quality transitional care. We sought to determine whether recent functional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","migration-helper-automated":[],"migration-manual":[],"topic":[24,39,28],"migration-helper-qa-sample-set":[],"class_list":["post-16719","journal_article","type-journal_article","status-publish","hentry","topic-acute-and-emergency-services","topic-infectious-diseases","topic-primary-care"],"acf":{"citation":"Bogler O, Kirkwood D, Austin PC, Jones A, Sinn CLJ, Okrainec K, Costa A, Lapointe-Shaw L. BMC Geriatr<\/em>. 2023; 23(1):550. 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