Intermediate-linkage steps used to obtain longitudinal data (containing heath service use, morbidity and mortality) for a large cohort of patients who are homeless that visited, and were discharged from hospital in England.
Introduction In England, details on hospital admissions and mortality are recorded nationally, but housing status and patients’ hospital discharge arrangements are only recorded locally within discharge services. These data are required to evaluate specialist homeless hospital discharge (HHD) servic...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2018-09-01
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Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/961 |