Complex chronic patients as an emergent group with high risk of intracerebral haemorrhage: an observational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Demographic aging is a generalised event and the proportion of older adults is increasing rapidly worldwide with chronic pathologies, disability, and complexity of health needs. The intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) has devastating consequences in high risk people. This study aims to quantify the incidence of ICH in complex chronic patients (CCP).

Methods

This is a multicentre, retrospective and community-based cohort study of 3594 CCPs followed up from 01/01/2013 to 31/12/2017 in primary care without a history of previous ICH episode. The cases were identified from clinical records encoded with ICD-10 (10th version of the International Classification of Diseases) in the e-SAP database of the Catalan Health Institute. The main variable was the ICH episode during the

SUBMITTER: Lorman-Carbo B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7863444 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature