What is it about?
The ageing population is blamed for the rise in emergency admissions. The actual trends are far more nuanced and seem to implicate a recurring series of outbreaks of a new kind of infectious agent.
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Why is it important?
Unless you understand the real reason(s) for rising emergency admissions you will resort to blame games. Policy and attempted solutions will be misdirected.
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Part of a series of papers seeking to disentangle the largely unexplained rise in medical admissions, 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: The Unprecedented Growth in Medical Admissions in the UK: The Ageing Population or a Possible Infectious/Immune Aetiology?, Epidemiology Open Access, January 2016, OMICS Publishing Group,
DOI: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000219.
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