Researchers conducted a prospective cohort study at two academic hospitals in Toronto, Canada, between Sept. 1, 2016, and Sept. 1, 2017. They enrolled adults who were admitted to the internal medicine ward for more than 48 hours. They were interviewed before discharge using a standardized questionnaire to assess sleep, mobility, nutrition and mood.
Researchers defined high trauma of hospitalization as disturbance in three or four of the domains assessed.
Of 207 patients who participated:
● 36.2 percent reported sleep disturbance
● 78.3 percent reported mobility disturbance
● 55.1 percent reported nutrition disturbance
● 23.2 percent reported mood disturbance
Nearly all participants (92.8 percent) described a disturbance in at least one of the four domains assessed, and 29.5 percent had high trauma of hospitalization.
Those participants who had experienced high trauma of hospitalization had a 15.8 percent greater absolute risk of readmission or emergency department visit as compared to those with low trauma.
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