ArticleBMJ open2014
Associations between primary healthcare and unplanned medical admissions in Norway: a multilevel analysis of the entire elderly population.
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- Reasons for acute referrals to hospital from general practitioners and out-of-hours doctors in Norway: a registry-based observational study.BMC health services research · 2022Observational
- Health Care Personnel's Perspective on Potential Electronic Health Interventions to Prevent Hospitalizations for Older Persons Receiving Community Care: Qualitative Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Contact with primary health care physicians before an acute hospitalisation.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2019Article
- General practitioners' and out-of-hours doctors' role as gatekeeper in emergency admissions to somatic hospitals in Norway: registry-based observational study.BMC health services research · 2019Observational
- Geographical Accessibility of Community Health Assist System General Practitioners for the Elderly Population in Singapore: A Case Study on the Elderly Living in Housing Development Board Flats.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Characteristics and predictors for hospitalizations of home-dwelling older persons receiving community care: a cohort study from Norway.BMC geriatrics · 2018Article
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- Sociodemographic and health characteristics, rather than primary care supply, are major drivers of geographic variation in preventable hospitalizations in Australia.Medical care · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine if individual risk of unplanned medical admissions (UMAs) was associated with municipality general practitioner (GP) or long-term care (LTC) volume among the entire Norwegian elderly population.
designCross-sectional population-based study.
setting428 of 430 Norwegian municipalities in 2009.
participantsAll Norwegians aged ≥65 years (n=721 915; 56% women-15% of the total population).
main outcome measureIndividual risk of UMA.
resultsUsing a multilevel analytical framework, consisting of individuals (N=722 464) nested within municipalities (N=428), nested within local hospital areas (N=52) we found no association between municipality GP or LTC volume and UMAs. However, we found that higher LTC levels of provision were associated with fewer hospitalisations among the older age groups. A modest geographical variability was observed for UMA in adjusted analysis.
conclusionsA higher primary healthcare volume was only associated with fewer UMAs among the oldest old in a universally accessible healthcare system.
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