Impact of nursing home deaths on life expectancy calculations in small areas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11179745 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward S Williams, Hywell Dinsdale (National Health Service), Daniel Eayres (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Farhang Tahzib (0000-0003-1821-5926, Veterinary Medicines Directorate) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 958-962 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0143-005X • E-ISSN: 1470-2738 |
| Publisher | BMJ (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1136/jech.2003.017608 |
| PMID | 15483314 |
| PMCID | PMC1732599 |
| OpenAlex | W2123813992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 9 |
Study objective: The drive to tackle health inequalities at the local level has increased interest in mortality data for small populations. There is some concern that nursing homes may affect measures of mortality for small populations, but there has been little in depth analysis of this. Design and setting: Deaths between 1997 and 2001 and population figures from the GP register (Exeter) database and census 2001 were used to produce life expectancy (LE) figures for all electoral wards in West Sussex. The proportion of those dying within each ward that had been residents of nursing homes was calculated and the relation between these variables and deprivation investigated. Results: There was a significant linear relation between nursing home deaths and LE (p Conclusions: This finding has important implications for LE calculations in small populations. Further investigation is now needed to examine the impact of nursing homes in other areas, on other mortality measures, and in larger populations
Environmental health · Life expectancy · Nursing homes · Population · Frailty in Older Adults · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Nursing · Gerontology
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2006 - 2020 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |