Open AccessEmergency hospital admissions for the elderly: insights from the Devon Predictive Model
Author(s) -
Todd Chenore,
Denis Pereira Gray,
J M Forrer,
Cameron Wright,
Philip Evans
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/fdt009
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , predictive value , population , emergency medicine , medical emergency , demography , environmental health , psychiatry , sociology
In the UK, people aged 85 and over are the fastest growing population group and are predicted to double in number by 2030. Emergency hospital admissions are also rising.
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