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MONDAY, Dec. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) — Death within five years of first unplanned hospital admission is common among older adults, according to a study published in the Dec. 16 issue of CMAJ<\/i>, the journal of the Canadian Medical Association.<\/p>\n
Kieran L. Quinn, M.D., from the University of Toronto, and colleagues used administrative data from 2007 to 2017 from Ontario, Canada, to assess the five-year risk for death in community-dwelling adults aged 66 years and older after their first planned or unplanned hospital admission or emergency department visit. Data were included for 922,074 community-dwelling older adults with 3,112,528 person-years of follow-up.<\/p>\n
The researchers found that 12.7 percent of participants died during follow-up (standardized mortality rate, 53.8 per 1,000 person-years). Overall, 39.7 percent died after the first unplanned hospital admission (standardized mortality rate, 127.6 per 1,000 person-years) and 13.0 percent died after the first planned hospital admission (standardized mortality rate, 44.6 per 1,000 person-years). After the first emergency department visit, 10.9 percent died (standardized mortality rate, 36.2 per 1,000 person-years). Overall, 3.1 percent died among those with neither an emergency department visit nor hospital admission during follow-up (standardized mortality rate, 29.6 per 1,000 person-years). Just over half of all deaths (50.7 percent) occurred among those with a first unplanned hospital admission.<\/p>\n
“This information may be useful to patients, clinicians, researchers, and health system planners,” the authors write. “Our hope is that this simple information can inform complex health care decisions.”<\/p>\n