Health-care-related adverse events leading to admission in older individuals: incidence, predictive factors and consequences
Author(s) -
Fabienne Magdelijns,
R.E.M. van Avesaath,
Evelien Pijpers,
Coen D.A. Stehouwer,
Patricia M. Stassen
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1464-360X
pISSN - 1101-1262
DOI - 10.1093/eurpub/ckw021
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , incidence (geometry) , comorbidity , odds ratio , emergency medicine , adverse effect , retrospective cohort study , confidence interval , cohort , pediatrics , psychiatry , physics , optics
Older individuals are particularly prone to suffer health-care-related adverse events (AEs); they often have more comorbidity and, thus, require more health-care. Since our society is ageing, insight into AEs leading to hospital admissions is necessary. We aimed to assess the incidence, predictive factors and consequences of AEs leading to admission in older individuals.
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