التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital episodes for falls and fractures associated with new-onset disability and frailty in England: a national cohort study. |
| المؤلفون: |
Thomas, Seth, Littleboy, Kathryn, Foubert, Josephine, Nafilyan, Vahe, Bannister, Neil, Routen, Ash, Morriss, Richard, Khunti, Kamlesh, Armstrong, Natalie, Gray, Laura J, Gordon, Adam L |
| المصدر: |
Age & Ageing; Apr2024, Vol. 53 Issue 4, p1-9, 9p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
RISK assessment, NATIONAL health services, PATIENTS, FRAIL elderly, HOSPITAL admission & discharge, PATIENT care, TIME series analysis, BONE fractures, LONGITUDINAL method, STAY-at-home orders, COVID-19 pandemic, ACCIDENTAL falls, DISEASE risk factors, OLD age |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
ENGLAND |
| مستخلص: |
Background Older people with frailty are at risk of harm from immobility or isolation, yet data about how COVID-19 lockdowns affected them are limited. Falls and fractures are easily measurable adverse outcomes correlated with frailty. We investigated whether English hospital admission rates for falls and fractures varied from the expected trajectory during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how these varied by frailty status. Methods NHS England Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care data were analysed for observed versus predicted outcome rates for 24 January 2020 to 31 December 2021. An auto-regressive integrated moving average time-series model was trained using falls and fracture incidence data from 2013 to 2018 and validated using data from 2019. Models included national and age-, sex- and region-stratified forecasts. Outcome measures were hospital admissions for falls, fractures, and falls and fractures combined. Frailty was defined using the Hospital Frailty Risk Score. Results 144,148,915 pre-pandemic hospital admissions were compared with 42,267,318 admissions after pandemic onset. For the whole population, falls and fracture rates were below predicted for the first period of national lockdown, followed by a rapid return to rates close to predicted. Thereafter, rates followed expected trends. For people living with frailty, however, falls and fractures increased above expected rates during periods of national lockdown and remained elevated throughout the study period. Effects of frailty were independent of age. Conclusions People living with frailty experienced increased fall and fracture rates above expected during and following periods of national lockdown. These remained persistently elevated throughout the study period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
