Hospitalizations of Nursing Home Residents in the Last Year of Life: Nursing Home Characteristics and Variation in Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations

To examine the incidence of, variations in, and costs of potentially avoidable hospitalizations (PAHs) of nursing home (NH) residents at the end of life and to identify the association between NH characteristics and a facility-level quality measure (QM) for PAH.Retrospective.Hospitalizations originating from NHs.Long-term care NH residents who died in 2007.A risk-adjusted QM was constructed for PAH. A Poisson regression model was used to predict...