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Journal Article
Unmet needs to admission in physical and rehabilitation inpatient department in Low and Middle Income Countries in 2023
2024
Overview
Determining the needs to access to rehabilitation structures is essential for developing effective improvement strategies. The objective of this study was to determine the percentage of unmet needs to admission to rehabilitation and their associated factors.
It is a cross sectional study in the inpatient rehabilitation department Sahloul Hospital of Sousse, tertiary care center including all requests to admission. Patient demographics, diagnoses, admission decisions, and post-decision outcomes were collected for each request.
Of 329 admission requests, 316 were eligible. The mean patient age was 45 years, with a male-to-female ratio of 0.84. Most requests originated from the hospital's outpatient department, neurology, and orthopedics. Among all requests, 40.5% were not admitted. Non-neurological diagnoses and patient residency were associated with non-admission. Patients with non-neurological conditions and those residing outside the city had twice the risk of non-admission. At one month, 63% of non-admitted patients experienced functional decline, and 18% were lost to follow-up.
Unmet needs to admission in rehabilitation structures is high due to lack of beds. This is leading of inequity of access to such important phase of care more. This study highlighted throwing the example of physical and rehabilitation department the gap of needs and the capacity of inpatient rehabilitation facilities. Healthcare policies should prioritize increasing rehabilitation bed availability in all regions of the country.
Publisher
Public Library of Science
Subject
/ Aged
/ Female
/ Health Services Needs and Demand - statistics & numerical data
/ Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data
/ Humans
/ Inpatients - statistics & numerical data
/ Male
/ Medicine and Health Sciences
/ Methods
/ Patient Admission - statistics & numerical data
/ Patients
/ Rehabilitation Centers - statistics & numerical data
