Region-based total medical care in a secondary medical service area : the care process model for return to ordinary life relayed by recovery phase hospitals

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In order to identify the characteristics of patients transferred from acute phase hospitals and also their usual destinations after discharge from recovery phase hospitals, we conducted a retrospective study of the patients' medical records and performed a comparative test using the destination as a dependent variable, focusing on a standard recovery phase hospital in a secondary medical service area. There were significant differences in the age (stratified by application of Insurance of the Elderly Care), cognitive function, ADL and history of receiving medical procedures, but no significant differences in the medical service areas that the subjects lived in. Therefore, it is considered that application of Insurance of the Elderly Care, degree of self-support for living, and medical needs of patients are important factors affecting the patients' destinations after discharge.