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Incidence of four adverse outcomes in the elderly population
— implications for home care policy and research | | Author(s) | Edward Alan Miller, William G Weissert |
| Journal title | Home Health Care Services Quarterly, vol 20, no 4, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 17-48 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Admission [nursing homes] ; Admission [hospitals] ; Mental disorder ; Death ; Longitudinal surveys ; Research Reviews ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The cost-effective allocation of home care resources requires knowledge of the incidence of institutionalisation, hospital admissions, functional impairment and mortality. The authors assembled a database containing 176 rates abstracted from 71 longitudinal studies published between 1985 and 1998 that examine one or more of these outcomes in the US population aged 65+. Where possible, median values were calculated for the estimated annual rate of each outcome for different types of studies - nationally representative, convenience sample and specific subgroups (e.g. hospital admissions and discharges). Findings showed comparatively low rates of institutionalisation and mortality, relatively high rates of hospital admissions and functional impairment; similar rates for national and sub-national probability samples; and rates from convenience samples which greatly exceed probability-based rates. The rates for institutionalisation, hospital admissions and mortality are quite stable, whilst those for functional impairment displayed more variability. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020902202 A |
| Classmark | LHB:QKH: LD:QKH: E: CW: 3J: 3A:6KC: 7T |
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