Emergency department falls: a longitudinal analysis of revisits and hospitalisations between patients who fall and patients who did not fall.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Older adult falls are a national issue comprising 3 million emergency department (ED) visits and significant mortality. We sought to understand whether ED revisits and hospitalisations for fallers differed from non-fall patients through a secondary analysis of a longitudinal, statewide cohort of patients.

Design

We performed a secondary analysis using the non-public Patient Discharge Database and the ED data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. This is a 5-year, longitudinal observational dataset, which was used to assess outcomes for fallers and non-fall patients, defined as anyone who did not carry a fall diagnosis during this time period.

Setting

2005-2010 non-public Patient Discharge Database and the ED Data from the s

SUBMITTER: Shankar KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733199 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature