Trends and Disparities in Post-acute Care Utilization After Hospitalization for Sepsis in the United States
This review establishes a pre-reform, pre-pandemic baseline for PAC utilization among sepsis survivors. Despite overall gains, disparities in PAC utilization persist by race, ethnicity, and hospital type. As payment and care delivery models have evolved since 2016, future research should leverage this historical baseline to assess the impact of new policies on equitable PAC access for sepsis survivors.
Authors
- Denise D. Quigley (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3815-908X)
- Jingjing Shang
- Andrew W. Dick
- Ashley M. Chastain (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9642-9749)
- Laurent G. Glance (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3381-699X)
- Zidu Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6122-8426)
- Ji Won Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8680-8673)
- Bridget Morse-Karzen
- Patricia W. Stone
- E. Yoko Furuya
Institutions
- RAND Corporation (US)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- University of Rochester (US)
- Columbia University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Medical Care
- Published
- 2026-01-07
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/mlr.0000000000002275
- Primary Topic
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00