Diagnoses Associated with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Adult Decedents: A Secondary Analysis of Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National Inpatient Sample (HCUP/NIS) Data

Abstract

Purpose: To identify primary and secondary diagnoses preceding death among adults with and without IDD who died during hospitalization. Specific Aims: 1) to describe the commonly reported base diagnostic related groups preceding death among decedents with and without IDD who died during hospitalization in 2019, 2) to determine which base-DRGs had a higher prevalence rate among adults with IDD than among adults without IDD, controlling for age, gender, race, urbanicity of person’s residence, US census division of hospital, and mean income of person’s zip code, and 3) to use the base-DRGs and ICD-10-CMs to examine the conditions of the Fatal Four/Five as conditions of concern preceding death in decedents with and without IDD. Framework: The NIMHD Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Framework. Design: A secondary data analysis using the 2019 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (HCUP-NIS). Results: Identified fourteen primary diagnoses at the time of death for decedents with IDD that are represented at a higher percentage than for decedents without IDD and have a significant odds ratio for IDD diagnosis. Conclusion: A new set of conditions is proposed to assist nurses in reducing preventable deaths in decedents with IDD. Dehydration, GI obstruction, respiratory infection, seizures, and sepsis, will be known as the IDD Concerning Conditions. Aspiration, constipation, and GERD, the IDD Contributing Conditions, are conditions that do not cause death in themselves but contribute to the development of at least one of the IDD Concerning Conditions, which do cause death.