Social deprivation, population dependency ratio and an extended hospital episode - Insights from acute medicine

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 714-719

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

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dependency Ratio; Deprivation Index; Emergency medical admission; Extended episode

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITAL UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; IRELAND; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84947863062     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2015.09.001     Document Type: Article

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