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Use of emergency departments by older people from residential care
— a population based study | | Author(s) | Sharyn L Ingarfield, Judith C Finn, Ian G Jacobs |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 38, no 3, May 2009 |
| Pages | pp 314-318 |
| Source | http://www.ageing.oxfordjournals.org |
| Keywords | Accident & emergency depts ; Residents [care homes] ; Usage [services] ; Social surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | A study of all 97,161 patients aged 65+ who presented to public hospital emergency departments (EDs) in Perth, Western Australia 2003-2006 considered patient demographic and clinical characteristics. Logistic regression was used to model the effects of living in residential care on the likelihood of a a particular ED diagnosis, hospital admission and in-hospital death. Older people from residential care were 1.69 times more likely to present to EDs than those from the community, and they were also older (mean age 84.7 vs 76 years). Those from residential care also had a different pattern of presentations: they were more likely to be diagnosed with pneumonia or influenza, urinary tract infections and hip fractures, and less likely to be diagnosed with circulatory system diseases and neoplasms. They were more likely to be admitted to hospital and die there. Whether these differences in care practices are appropriate, or represent under-treatment of those from residential care, is unknown. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-090618217 A |
| Classmark | LD6: KX: QLD: 3F: 7YA |
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