Predicting risk of hospital and emergency department use for home care elderly persons through a secondary analysis of cross-national data

摘要

BackgroundOlder adults remain the highest utilization group with unplanned visits to emergency departments and hospital admissions. Many have considered what leads to this high utilization and the answers provided have depended upon the independent measures available in the datasets used. This project was designed to further understanding of the reasons for older adult ED visits and admissions to acute care hospitals.