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ArticleIrish journal of medical science2018

Persons with disability, social deprivation and an emergency medical admission.

Seán Cournane, Richard Conway, Declan Byrne, Deirdre O'Riordan, Bernard Silke

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Seán CournaneMedical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department, St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Richard ConwayDepartment of Internal Medicine, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Declan ByrneDepartment of Internal Medicine, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Deirdre O'RiordanDepartment of Internal Medicine, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
Bernard SilkeDepartment of Internal Medicine, St James's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland. bernardsilke@physicians.ie.

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backgroundThe community level of disability and social deprivation may result in an emergency hospitalisation; we have examined the annual admission incidence rate for emergency medical conditions in relation to the community prevalence of such factors.

methodsAll emergency medical admissions (96,305 episodes in 50,612 patients) within the institution's catchment area were examined between 2002 and 2016. The frequency of disability, level of full-time carers and unemployment for the 74 electoral divisions of the catchment area was regressed against admission rates; incidence rate ratios (IRR) were calculated using truncated Poisson regression.

resultsDisability was present in 12.1% of the catchment area population (95% CI = 9.7-15.0). The annual admission incidence rates/1000 population across disability quintiles for the more affluent areas increased from Q1 7.6 (95% CI = 7.4-7.8) to Q5 27.3 (95% CI = 27.0-27.5) and for the more deprived area from Q1 16.6 (95% CI = 16.4, 16.8) to and Q5 40.4 (95% CI = 40.1-40.7). Disability status influenced the overall admission IRR (compared with Q1/Q3) for Q4/Q5 1.11 (95% CI = 1.09-1.13) showing an increased rate of hospitalisation for the more deprived areas. Community disability levels interacted with local area unemployment and frequency of full-time carers; as they increased, a linear relationship between disability and the admission rate incidence was demonstrated.

conclusionLocal catchment area disability prevalence rates in addition to social deprivation factors are an important determinant of the annual incidence rate of emergency medical admissions.

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AgedEmergency Medical ServicesFemaleHospitalizationHumansMaleMiddle AgedPatient AdmissionPersons with DisabilitiesDeprivationDisabilityEmergency medical admissions

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