What is it about?
Data from New Zealand is used to demonstrate that the gender ratio for hospital admissions show systematic up/down steps over time. These steps occur when there is an outbreak of a presumed novel type of infectious agent.
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Why is it important?
Obviously there will be some movement in the gender ratio in each diagnosis/condition due to statistical randomness, however, these changes are higher than expected from randomness and occur at a common time between countries.
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Part of a far longer series investigating outbreaks of a presumed infectious agent which appears to lead to higher female admissions across a range of conditions, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Gender ratio and hospital admissions, British Journal of Healthcare Management, November 2010, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2010.16.11.79649.
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