Patient emergency health-care use before hospital admission for COVID-19 and long-term outcomes in Scotland: a national cohort study

Patient emergency health-care use before hospital admission for COVID-19 and long-term outcomes in Scotland: a national cohort study

Summary: Background: It 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 hospital after discharge following the index admission...

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Main Authors: Annemarie B Docherty, PhD, James Farrell, PhD, Mathew Thorpe, MSc, Conor Egan, MSc, Sarah Dunn, MSc, Lisa Norman, PhD, Catherine A Shaw, PhD, Andrew Law, PhD, Gary Leeming, BA, Lucy Norris, MSc, Andrew Brooks, MSc, Bianca Prodan, BSc Hons, Ruairidh MacLeod, MSci, Robert Baxter, PhD, Carole Morris, BSc, Diane Rennie, BA, Wilna Oosthuyzen, PhD, Malcolm G Semple, ProfPhD, J Kenneth Baillie, ProfPhD, Riinu Pius, PhD, Sohan Seth, PhD, Ewen M Harrison, ProfPhD, Nazir I Lone, PhD
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-07-01
Series:The Lancet: Digital Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589750023000511

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