Correction: BMC Geriatrics 22, 854 (2022)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-022-03537-y

After publication of this article [1], the authors reported that in Table 1 and Fig. 2 some errors occurred. Updated versions of Table 1 and Fig. 2 are shown below.

Table 1 Participant Characteristics
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Percentage of participants with CI discharged by destination. ADRD=Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias; CI=Cognitive impairment; TCP=Transitional Care Program; * = Outcome is Successful Discharge (defned as being discharged alive from a skilled nursing facility (SNF) to the community within 90 days of SNF admission without subsequent inpatient healthcare utilization for 30 continuous days; ** = Outcome is community discharge rate (metric used on Nursing Home Compare is the rate of benefciaries who are able to leave the SNF by 100 days after hospital discharge and remain in the community (i.e.,alive and outside the hospital and nursing home) for at least 30 days after SNF discharge; *** = Outcome is Successful Discharge (discharge to community within 100 days of a nursing home admission, defned as: Discharge to the community within 100 days (allowing for interim discharges from Community Living Center to hospital if the Minimum Data Set noted that return was anticipated, observation stays, and emergency room use), and no unplanned admissions to a hospital, a nursing home or observation stay, and not dying within 30 days following discharge; **** = Outcome is Successful Discharge to the community (During the 30 subsequent days the veteran did not die, was not readmitted to a hospital for an unplanned inpatient stay, and was not admitted to a nursing home): No * indicates that it is the percentage of older adults with CI discharged home, and does not specify that it needs to have been a “successful” discharge as defned in the 4 studies with a *

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The original article [1] has been corrected.