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Neurology 2000;54:740
© 2000 American Academy of Neurology
Brief Communications

Frequency and duration of hospitalization of patients with AD based on Medicare data: CERAD XX

G. Fillenbaum, PhD, A. Heyman, MD, B. Peterson, PhD, C. Pieper, DrPH and A. L. Weiman, MA

From the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development (Drs. Fillenbaum and Weiman), the Division of Neurology (Dr. Heyman), and the Division of Biometry (Drs. Peterson and Pieper), Duke University, Durham, NC.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Albert Heyman, Box 3203, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.

Medicare records on 477 Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease patients with AD for 1991 through 1995 showed a hospitalization rate of 0.37/person-year with a length of stay of 3.7 days/person-year (average of 10 days/hospitalization). Unmarried and less-educated patients with AD were admitted to the hospital more frequently, and, along with black patients, had a longer length of stay. Frequency and duration of hospitalization were greater in the patients with AD than in Medicare beneficiaries in general, but the rate of diagnostic/therapeutic procedures was lower.

Key words: AD—Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease—Medicare—Hospitalization—Length of stay—Discharge diagnoses






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