Health checks for adults with intellectual disability and association with survival rates: a linked electronic records matched cohort study in Wales, UK.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine if mortality rates are lower in people with intellectual disability who have had a health check compared with those who have not had health checks.

Setting

General practice records of 26 954 people with an intellectual disability in Wales between 2005-2017, of which 7650 (28.4%) with a health check were matched 1:2 with those without a health check.

Primary outcome measure

Office of National Statistics mortality data; a Cox regression was utilised to examine time to death adjusted for comorbidities and gender.

Results

Patients who had a health check were stratified by those who (1) had a confirmed health check, that is, Read Code for a health check (n=7650 (28.4 %)) and (2) had no evidence of receiving a health check in their medical record

SUBMITTER: Kennedy N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9013997 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature