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Predicting adverse health outcomes in older community-dwelling adults: a prospective cohort study
(2016)
Wallace, Emma
Predicting adverse health outcomes in older community-dwelling adults: a prospective cohort study
(2016)
Wallace, Emma
Abstract:
<p><strong>Background</strong></p> <p>This thesis aimed to investigate if adverse health outcomes in older community-dwelling people can be predicted, through the application of measures of prescribing, multimorbidity and emergency admission risk models. There were five objectives: 1) to determine if there is a longitudinal association between potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP) and future adverse drug events (ADEs), reduced health related quality of life (HRQOL) and increased use of Accident & Emergency (A&E) and emergency admissions; 2) to assess the performance of different measures of multimorbidity and vulnerability in predicting emergency hospital attendance and functional decline; 3) to conduct a systematic review of emergency admission risk prediction models developed for use in community-dwelling adults; 4) to systematically review and meta-analyse the validation studies of the Probability of repeated admissions (Pra) risk model...
https://epubs.rcsi.ie/phdtheses/175
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