Characteristics and outcomes of injured older adults after hospital admission

LM Aitken, E Burmeister, J Lang… - Journal of the …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… This study explored the characteristics and outcomes of older adults admitted to the
hospital for acute injury. Although mortality was only 5%, approximately one-third of patients …

Factors associated with hospital admission for older adults receiving care in US emergency departments

AX Lo, KL Flood, K Biese, TF Platts-Mills… - … Series A: Biomedical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… the 175 million US ED visits by adults older than 65 years resulted in a hospital admission,
with 5.5% admitted to the ICU and 32.5% to a non-ICU bed. Admission rates to non-ICU beds …

Rehabilitation interventions with deconditioned older adults following an acute hospital admission: a systematic review

AJ Timmer, CA Unsworth, NF Taylor - Clinical Rehabilitation, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
… diagnosis, hospital admissions for older adults with acute … to three days of admission to
hospital 6 and approximately one-… independence in older adults during acute admissions has …

Cause-specific risk of hospital admission related to extreme heat in older adults

JF Bobb, Z Obermeyer, Y Wang, F Dominici - Jama, 2014 - jamanetwork.com
hospital admissions for fluid and electrolyte disorders, heat stroke, septicemia, urinary tract
infection, and renal failure in a large population of older adults … of 23.7 million older adults per …

[PDF][PDF] Global and regional burden of hospital admissions for pneumonia in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

T Shi, A Denouel, AK Tietjen, JW Lee… - The Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… that the hospital admission rate for CAP among adults aged ≥18 years was 2.5 cases/1000
persons per year and that the highest rates occurred in older adults aged 65–… The hospital

Predictors of physical activity in older adults early in an emergency hospital admission: a prospective cohort study

P Hartley, AL DeWitt, F Forsyth, R Romero-Ortuno… - BMC geriatrics, 2020 - Springer
… However, the drivers of reduced in-hospital mobility are poorly understood, especially …
of in-hospital activity during the first 24 h of hospital admission in older adults in the United …

Comorbidity and repeat admission to hospital for adverse drug reactions in older adults: retrospective cohort study

M Zhang, CDAJ Holman, SD Price, FM Sanfilippo… - Bmj, 2009 - bmj.com
… In Western countries, ADRs cause 3-6% of all hospital admissions1-3 and … hospital
admission or extended hospital stay increased at a greater rate than first time ADRs in older adults

Improving the rehabilitation of older people after emergency hospital admission

S McKelvie, AM Hall, HR Richmond, S Finnegan… - Maturitas, 2018 - Elsevier
… To determine the effectiveness of exercise-based rehabilitation programmes that improved
the functional status of older adults after an emergency hospital admission as measured by …

Optimizing therapy to prevent avoidable hospital admissions in multimorbid older adults (OPERAM): cluster randomised controlled trial

MR Blum, BTGM Sallevelt, A Spinewine, D O'Mahony… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
… OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of optimising drug treatment on drug related hospital
admissions in older adults with multimorbidity and polypharmacy admitted to hospital. …

Older adults and unanticipated hospital admission within 30 days of ambulatory surgery: an analysis of 53,667 ambulatory surgical procedures

GS De Oliveira Jr, JL Holl, LA Lindquist… - Journal of the …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… In summary, older adults are at greater risk of unanticipated hospital admission after
ambulatory surgery. The higher hospital admission rates also occurred in older adults who did not …