@article{Docherty_A-2023_142330,
title = {Patient emergency health-care use before hospital admission for COVID-19 and long-term outcomes in Scotland: a national cohort study},
author = {Docherty, A. and Farrell, J. and Thorpe, M. and Egan, C. and Dunn, S. and Norman, L. and Shaw, C. and Law, A. and Leeming, G. and Norris, L. and Brooks, A. and Prodan, B. and MacLeod, R. and Baxter, R. and Morris, C. and Rennie, D. and Oosthuyzen, W. and Semple, M. and Baillie, J. and Pius, R. and Seth, S. and Harrison, E. and Lone, N.},
month = {jun},
year = {2023},
abstract = {BackgroundIt is unclear what effect the pattern of health-care use before admission to hospital with COVID-19 (index admission) has on the long-term outcomes for patients. We sought to describe mortality and emergency readmission to hospitalafter dischargefollowing the index admission (index discharge), and to assess associations between these outcomes and patterns of health-care use before such admissions.},
pages = {e446-e457},
volume = {5},
issue = {7},
journal = {The Lancet Digital Health},
publisher = {Elsevier},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00051-1},
}
