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Factors associated with mortality in national health service nursing homes for elderly people and longstay geriatric wards in hospital
Author(s) -
Bowling Ann,
Formby Juliet,
Grant Kenneth
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/gps.930080303
Subject(s) - medicine , logistic regression , gerontology , bivariate analysis , nursing homes , mortality rate , geriatrics , cognitive impairment , demography , cognition , nursing , psychiatry , statistics , mathematics , sociology
Abstract This article presents the analyses of mortality rates of elderly people in a randomized controlled trial of nursing home and long‐stay ward care in hospital. No statistically significant differences between settings were found in relation to mortality rates. Age, accident rate and existence of cognitive impairment were associated with mortality with bivariate analyses, although they were found to explain very little of the variation between survival and mortality when logistic regression analysis was employed. In both settings, those who had some cognitive impairment had just over twice the relative risk of dying than others, although this difference was not statistically significant.