Open AccessDeprivation as an outcome determinant in emergency medical admissions
Author(s) -
Richard Conway,
S. Galvin,
Seamus Coveney,
David L. O’Riordan,
Bernard Silke
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
qjm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.427
H-Index - 118
eISSN - 1460-2725
pISSN - 1460-2393
DOI - 10.1093/qjmed/hcs233
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , social deprivation , odds ratio , logistic regression , univariate analysis , demography , population , standardized mortality ratio , pediatrics , multivariate analysis , economics , sociology , environmental health , economic growth
Deprivation in the general population predicts mortality. We have investigated its relevance to an acute medical admission, using a database of all emergency admissions to St James' Hospital, Dublin, over a 10-year period (2002-11).
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