Death within 1 year among emergency medical admissions to Scottish hospitals: incident cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is increasingly recognised that large numbers of hospital inpatients have entered the last year of their lives.

Aim

To establish the likelihood of death within 12 months of admission to hospital; to examine the influence on survival of a cancer diagnosis made within the previous 5 years; to assess whether previous emergency admissions influenced mortality; and to compare mortality with that of the wider Scottish population.

Design

Incident cohort study.

Setting

22 hospitals in Scotland.

Participants

This study used routinely collected data from 10 477 inpatients admitted as an emergency to medicine in 22 Scottish hospitals between 18 and 31 March 2015. These data were linked to national death records and the Scottish Cancer Registry.

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SUBMITTER: Moore E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042622 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature