Potentially avoidable causes of hospitalisation in people with dementia: contemporaneous associations by stage of dementia in a South London clinical cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the frequency of all-cause and ambulatory care sensitive condition (ACSCs)-related hospitalisations among individuals with dementia. In addition, to investigate differences by stage of dementia based on recorded cognitive function.

Setting

Data from a large London dementia care clinical case register, linked to a national hospitalisation database.

Participants

Individuals aged ≥65 years with a confirmed dementia diagnosis with recorded cognitive function.

Outcome measures

Acute general hospital admissions were evaluated within 6 months of a randomly selected cognitive function score in patients with a clinical diagnosis of dementia. To evaluate associations between ACSC-related hospital admissions (overall and individual ACSCs) and stage

SUBMITTER: Gungabissoon U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8984034 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature