Deprivation index and dependency ratio are key determinants of emergency medical admission rates

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 709-713

  Conway, Richard ^a,b   Byrne, Declan ^a   O'Riordan, Deirdre ^a   Cournane, Seán ^a   Coveney, Seamus ^c   Silke, Bernard ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dependency Ratio; Deprivation Index; Emergency medical admission

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ILLNESS SEVERITY SCORE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC DISABLING DISEASE SCORE; DEPENDENCY RATIO; DEPRIVATION INDEX; EMERGENCY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEPSIS; ACUTE DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; IRELAND; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84947800332     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2015.09.010     Document Type: Article

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