Andy
Are you (or anyone else) planning to publish these figures or perform a
formal study of the problem? As far as I can see there has been negligable
research published on this, and it seems an interesting topic...
Chris Kirke
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Subject: Re: 'Social' admissions
> Last year we audited the outcome of "social elderly" admissions. we only
followed
> up those we felt had no significant medical problem but we could not send
home.
>
> The shock statistic was 50% mortality at 1 month. This goes to show that
death
> is a process in many cases. Since sending the data to the CoE team they
have
> been far less resistant to admission
> APV Scarborough
>
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