Comorbid conditions related to readmissions of Chinese older patients  

作　　者：Chunyang Li Hyokyoung GHong Zhiye Ying Xiaoxi Zeng Yi Li 

机构地区：[1]West China Biomedical Big Data Center,West China Hospital,Sichuan University,Chengdu,Sichuan 610041,China [2]Medical Big Data Center,Sichuan University,Chengdu,Sichuan 610041,China [3]Department of Statistics and Probability,Michigan State University,East Lansing,MI,USA [4]Department of Biostatistics,School of Public Health,University of Michigan,Ann Arbor,MI,USA

出　　处：《Chinese Medical Journal》2022年第6期741-743,共3页中华医学杂志（英文版）

基　　金：supported by Science&Technology Department of Sichuan Province funding project(No.21QYCX0078);Chengdu Science and Technology Bureau funding project(No.2020-YF09-00117-GX);1.3.5 project for disciplines of excellence,West China Hospital,Sichuan University(No.ZYJC18010)。

摘　　要：To the Editor:China is the most populated country,and it is aging more quickly than almost any other country in the world.According to Worldometer,[1]the population size of China,as of 2020,is around 1.4 billion,with the proportion of the 60-year olds and older being 17.30%in 2017 and expected to reach 35%in 2050.Older age tended to be closely correlated with multimorbidity.Ward and Schiller[2]reported that 65%of men and 72%of women aged>65 years in the US had at least two chronic conditions in 2010.Accordingly,older adults living with multiple chronic conditions tend to be readmitted after discharge,further leading to increased expenditure and more utilization of medical resources.Many studies have reported higher read mission rates in elderly patients.However,previous studies have focused on investigating the factors that influence read mission for a single disease,rather than for the chronic comorbid conditions in the initial hospitalization and the changes in these conditions from initial hospitalization to read mission among the elderly in China.Furthermore,most studies have focused on Caucasian patients and have been conducted in the US.Little is known about Chinese patients due to the lack of large-scale data.Identifying the common chronic comorbid conditions and the changes in these conditions from initial hospitalization to read mission among older people is important as it will help in the understanding of the chronic conditions leading to avoidable read mission and facilitate the development of efficient intervention strategies for the reduction of read missions.

关 键 词：CONDITIONS AMONG admitted 

分 类 号：R592[医药卫生—老年医学]