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Area of Science:

  • Healthcare Management
  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Rural Health

Background:

  • Intermediate care units offer a lower-cost alternative to intensive care for select patients.
  • Rural hospitals may utilize intermediate care units for financial sustainability.
  • Outcomes data for intermediate care, especially in rural settings, are limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between hospital location (rural vs. urban) and patient mortality.
  • To analyze mortality rates for mechanically ventilated patients across different care settings (intensive, intermediate, general care).
  • To assess the impact of rurality on outcomes for patients in intermediate care units.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of Medicare beneficiaries (aged 65+) receiving invasive mechanical ventilation from 2010-2019.
  • Multivariable logistic regression to compare 30-day mortality between rural and urban hospitals.
  • Models adjusted for patient demographics, diagnoses, comorbidities, illness severity, and hospital characteristics.

Main Results:

  • Over 2.7 million hospitalizations were analyzed; 7.0% occurred in rural hospitals.
  • The proportion of patients in rural intermediate care increased from 4.1% to 6.3% between 2010 and 2019.
  • Adjusted 30-day mortality was similar in rural and urban intensive care units (46.7%), but significantly higher in rural intermediate care (36.9%) versus urban intermediate care (31.3%).

Conclusions:

  • Hospitalization in rural intermediate care units is associated with increased patient mortality.
  • There is a critical need to better understand the utilization and patient selection criteria for intermediate care units.
  • Careful evaluation of patient appropriateness for intermediate care is essential, particularly in rural settings.