Association between household context and emergency hospital use in older people: a retrospective cohort study on indicators for people living alone or living with somebody with frailty, developed from routine healthcare data in England.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To derive two household context factors - living alone and living in a two-person household with a person who is frail - from routine administrative health data and to assess their association with emergency hospital use in people aged 65 or over.

Design

Retrospective cohort study using national pseudonymised hospital data and pseudonymised address data derived from a minimised version of the Master Patient Index, a central database of all patient registrations in England.

Setting

England-wide.

Participants

4 876 285 people aged 65 years or older registered at GP practices in England on 16 December 2018 who were living alone or in a household of up to six people, and with at least one hospital admission in the last 3 years.

Outcomes

Rates of a

SUBMITTER: Lloyd T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9062795 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature