The overall use of acute care services by nursing home (NH) residents in Canada has not been well documented. Our objectives were to identify the major causes of hospitalization among NH facility residents and to compare rates to those of community-dwelling seniors. A retrospective cohort was defined using population-level health administrative data, including all individuals aged 65 years and older living in a British Columbia NH facility between April 1996 and March 1999. Hospitalization rates of NH residents were compared to estimated rates for community-dwelling seniors, using age- and sex-adjusted standardized incidence ratios (SIRs): SIR = 2.81 (95%CI: 2.71, 2.91) for femoral fractures, 1.96 (1.88, 2.04) for pneumonia, 0.73 (0.70, 0.76) for other heart disease, and 1.01 (0.99, 1.02) for all causes. NH residents have disproportionately higher rates of hospitalization for femoral fractures and pneumonia, with NH residents accounting for approximately one quarter of all femoral fracture hospitalizations of BC seniors.
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