Association between the receipt of home care nursing and an emergency department visit or hospital readmission within 30 days of discharge
| Surgery type | Crude frequency of an ED visit or hospital readmission within 30 days of discharge | Relative odds of an ED visit of hospital readmission with home care nursing | ||
|
Home care
nursing | No home care nursing |
Unadjusted
OR |
Adjusted
OR* | |
| CEA | 14.5% (n=155 of 1063) | 17.3% (n=1067 of 6160) | 0.74 (0.59–0.94) | 0.74 (0.61–0.91) |
| EVAR | 22.3% (n=323 of 1127) | 22.8% (n=777 of 2634) | 0.97 (0.82–1.14) | 0.85 (0.72–0.99) |
| Open AAA repair | 20.1% (n=343 of 1360) | 18.3% (n=607 of 2698) | 1.09 (0.93–1.27) | 1.06 (0.91–1.23) |
| Bypass for PAD | 28.5% (n=1210 of 3029) | 29.4% (n=681 of 1638) | 0.96 (0.85–1.08) | 0.81 (0.72–0.92) |
*Adjusted for patient and index admission covariates listed in table 1 and clustering of similar patients within the same region. A total of 308 of 23 617 patients had missing marginalisation index and were excluded from the model.
AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm; CEA, carotid endarterectomy; ED, emergency department; EVAR, endovascular aortic aneurysm repair; PAD, peripheral arterial disease.