TY - JOUR
AU - Docherty, Annemarie B.
AU - Farrell, James
AU - Thorpe, Matthew
AU - Egan, Conor
AU - Dunn, Sarah
AU - Norman, Lisa
AU - Shaw, Catherine A.
AU - Law, Andy
AU - Leeming, Gary
AU - Norris, Lucy
AU - Brooks, Andrew
AU - Prodan, Bianca
AU - MacLeod, Ruairidh
AU - Baxter, Rob
AU - Morris, Carole
AU - Rennie, Diane
AU - Oosthuyzen, Wilna
AU - Semple, Malcolm G.
AU - Baillie, J. Kenneth
AU - Pius, Riinu
AU - Seth, Sohan
AU - Harrison, Ewen M.
AU - Lone, Nazir I.
PY - 2023
DA - June
TI - Patient emergency health-care use before hospital admission for COVID-19 and long-term outcomes in Scotland: a national cohort study
JO - The Lancet Digital Health
EP - e457
VL - 5
IS - 7
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S2589-7500(23)00051-1
AB - 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.
PB - Elsevier
UR - https://publichealthscotland.scot/id/142330
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Hospital care
ER