Hospitalisations related to nervous-system diseases in Australia, 1998-2019: a secular trend analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The burden of neurological disease-related disabilities and deaths is one of the most serious issues globally. We aimed to examine the hospitalisation profile related to nervous system diseases in Australia for the duration between 1998 and 2019.

Design

A secular trend analysis using a population-based dataset.

Setting

This analysis used a population-based study of hospitalised patients in Australia. Hospitalisation data were extracted from the National Hospital Morbidity Database, which collects sets of episode-level information for Australian patients admitted to all private and public hospitals.

Participants

All patients who were hospitalised in all private and public hospitalisations.

Primary outcome measure

Hospitalisation rates related to

SUBMITTER: Abuhamdah SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10537858 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature