Home-based Rehabilitation After Inpatient Rehabilitation: Utilization Rate and Characteristics of Referred Patients

To determine the utilization rate of a home-based rehabilitation program after an inpatient rehabilitation stay, and to investigate the profile of users. Observational study. Inpatient rehabilitation facility in a tertiary hospital. Older patients (N=1913) discharged home between June 2018 and May 2021, after an inpatient rehabilitation stay. Not applicable. Discharge to home-based rehabilitation. Over the study period, 296 (15.5%) patients were discharged to home-based rehabilitation. Compared with the others, home-based rehabilitation patients were more frequently women (69.6% vs 61.5%; P=.008), and admitted after orthopedic surgery (elective or for fracture) (30.1% vs 16.1%; P