Household and area determinants of emergency department attendance and hospitalisation in people with multimorbidity: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Multimorbidity is one of the greatest challenges facing healthcare internationally. Emergency department (ED) attendance and hospitalisation rates are higher in people with multimorbidity, but most research focuses on associations with individual characteristics, ignoring household or area mediators of service use.

Design

Systematic review reported using the synthesis without meta-analysis framework.

Data sources

Twelve electronic databases (1 January 2000-21 September 2021): MEDLINE/OVID, Embase, Global Health, PsycINFO, ASSIA, CAB Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded/ISI Web of Science, Scopus, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Sociological Abstracts, the Cochrane Library, and OpenGrey.

Eligibility criteria

Adults aged

SUBMITTER: MacRae C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9535173 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature