Factors associated with acute care service use after epilepsy hospitalisation in people with intellectual disability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to identify factors associated with unplanned acute hospital readmission and emergency department (ED) presentation after hospitalisation for epilepsy in people with intellectual disability (ID).

Methods

This study is a retrospective cohort study using linked administrative datasets. We identified 3293 people with ID aged 5-64 years with a hospitalisation for epilepsy between 2005 and 2014 in New South Wales, Australia. We examined unplanned readmission and ED presentation within 30 or 365 days and associations with demographic, socio-economic and health status variables. Modified Poisson regression with robust estimation was used to model outcomes within 30 days. Negative binomial regression was used to account for the overdispersion of the data

SUBMITTER: Liao P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10952954 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature