Preadmission morbidity and healthcare utilization among older adults with potentially avoidable hospitalizations: a Danish case-control study.
Christine K SchrøderEskild B KristiansenLone FlarupChristian Fynbo ChristiansenReimar Wernich ThomsenPia Kjaer KristensenPublished in: European geriatric medicine (2023)
A high number of healthcare contacts and preadmission morbidity and medication use, especially chronic lung, heart, and kidney disease, alcohol-related or psychiatric disease including dementia, and previous infections are strongly associated with potentially avoidable hospitalizations.