Residential care homes | Nursing homes | |||||||
Principia | Matched controls | Principia | Matched controls | |||||
Outcomes over the follow-up period | Events | Crude rate* | Events | Crude rate* | Events | Crude rate* | Events | Crude rate* |
Total number of residencies | 203 | 203 | 365 | 365 | ||||
Total number of unique residents | 203 | 166 | 365 | 263 | ||||
Person-years of follow-up | 145.3 | 139.3 | 182.1 | 189.6 | ||||
Potentially avoidable emergency admissions | 29 | 0.20 | 56 | 0.40 | 44 | 0.24 | 38 | 0.20 |
Emergency admissions | 86 | 0.59 | 129 | 0.93 | 124 | 0.68 | 100 | 0.53 |
A&E attendances | 119 | 0.82 | 185 | 1.33 | 124 | 0.68 | 131 | 0.69 |
Hospital bed days† | 5.5 (15.6) | 0.035 (0.115) | 5.9 (12.4) | 0.039 (0.107) | 3.5 (8.9) | 0.031 (0.094) | 3.5 (10.1) | 0.034 (0.120) |
Outpatient attendances | 303 | 2.09 | 204 | 1.46 | 350 | 1.92 | 394 | 2.08 |
Deaths out of hospital (% of all deaths) | 40 | 74.1% | 38 | 69.1% | 127 | 84.1% | 138 | 88.5% |
Deaths (% of all records) | 54 | 26.6% | 55 | 27.1% | 151 | 41.4% | 156 | 42.7% |
*Number of events per person per year.
†Hospital bed days are presented as mean (SD) of the absolute number of bed days (in ‘events’ column) and of hospital bed days as a proportion of the length of stay in the care home (in the ‘crude rate’ column).
A&E, Accident & Emergency.