Abstract
[Purpose] To examine factors that affected the rehospitalization of patients who had been discharged from a comprehensive community-based care ward to long-term care welfare facilities, to help efforts to prevent rehospitalization. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects were 76 people. This was a retrospective study performed using medical records. The subjects were divided into two groups, those who were rehospitalized within 3 months from their discharge date, and those who were not. Disease, age, gender, functional independence measure, index of nutritional status, and method of communication when providing information to the discharge destination were compared between the groups, and a multivariate analysis was performed. [Results] Nursing and healthcare-associated pneumonia was the primary cause of rehospitalization. Other factors affecting rehospitalization were serum albumin value, diet form, and providing information by face to face communication. [Conclusion] The results suggest that efforts to improve nutritional status, the proper diet form, the positioning at the time of meal intake, and face to face information provision on assistance may help reduce rehospitalization.
