Open AccessIt is feasible to flag ‘near end-of-life’ status in older patients from routine general practice data
Author(s) -
Magnolia Cardona,
Margaret Williamson,
Mark Jones,
Danielle Ní Chróinín,
John Gullotta,
Ken Hillman,
Ebony Lewis,
Mark Morgan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
australian journal of general practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2208-794X
pISSN - 2208-7958
DOI - 10.31128/ajgp-08-19-5033
Subject(s) - flag (linear algebra) , medicine , computer science , mathematics , algebra over a field , pure mathematics
A retrospective chart review was used to assess the feasibility of identifying these indicators in the data (160,897 patients from 464 practices across Australia). Conditional logistic regression was used to assess the independent contribution of nEOL indicators in patients aged 75-84 and ≥85 years using a case-control design matching by practice.