ArticleClinical medicine (London, England)2021
Emergency hospital admissions associated with non-communicable diseases 1998-2018 in England, Wales and Scotland: an ecological study.
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Abstract
backgroundNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) are increasingly prevalent and were responsible for 40.5 million deaths (71%) globally in 2016. We examined the number of NCD-related emergency hospital admissions during the years 1998 to 2018 in the UK.
methodsDemographic features for those admitted as an emergency with NCDs as their primary diagnosis were collated for all admissions in England, Wales and Scotland. NCDs recorded as secondary diagnoses for all admissions in England from 2012 to 2018 were additionally recorded.
resultsWe identified 120,662,155 emergency episodes of care. From 1998 to 2018 there was an increase from 1,416,233 to 1,892,501 in annual emergency admissions due to NCDs. This, however, represented a fall in the proportion of NCD among all emergency admissions, from 33.4% to 26.9%. Mean age of all patients admitted increased from 46.3 to 53.8 years.
conclusionDespite a fall in proportion of NCD admissions, the population acutely admitted to hospital was increasingly elderly and increasingly comorbid.
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