Background Ageing has become a serious challenge in Hong Kong and globally. It has serious implications for health expenditure, which accounts for nearly 20% of overall government expenditure. Here we assess the contribution of ageing and related factors to hospitalisation days in Hong Kong. We used hospital discharge data from all publicly funded hospitals in Hong Kong between 2001 and 2012.  ...

OBJECTIVES The prime objective of this study is to examine the trends of disease and age pattern of hospitalisation and associated costs in India during 1995-2014. DESIGN Present study used nationally representative data on morbidity and healthcare from the 52nd (1995) and 71st (2014) rounds of the National Sample Survey. SETTINGS A total of 120 942 and 65 932 households were surveyed in 19...

BACKGROUND There are few studies that have investigated temporal trends in risk of recurrent stroke. The aim of this study was to examine temporal trends in hospitalisation for stroke recurrence following incident hospitalisation for stroke in Scotland during 1986 to 2001. METHODS Unadjusted survival analysis of time to first event, hospitalisation for recurrent stroke or death, was undertake...

CONTEXT Though the cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality in India, little is known about the human and economic loss attributed to the disease. The aim of this paper is to account the age and sex pattern of mortality, hospitalisation and the cost of hospitalisation for cardiovascular diseases in India. DATA AND METHODS Data for the present study has been drawn from multip...

Malakoplakia is a pseudogranulomatous disorder secondary to an still unknown de - feet in some stages of phagocytosis.  We have reported a 3 year-old girl afflicted with this defect, who was admit­ted to Loghman Hospital' Pediatrics Department with severe pallor, abdominal mass and loonstanding history of dysentery prior to hospitalisation. Inconclusive clinical and B.M. Investigations rendered...

OBJECTIVES We report hospitalisation trends for different age groups across the states of India and for various disease groups, compare the hospitalisation trends among the older (aged 60 years or more) and the younger (aged under 60 years) population and quantify the factors that contribute to the change in hospitalisation rates of the older population over two decades. DESIGN Serial cross-s...

Objective. To explore the relationship between mean arterial pressure (MAP), HbA1c, and cardiovascular (CV) hospitalisation risk in type 2 diabetes. Design. Population-based case-control study. Settings. Primary and secondary care level in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom. Participants. 588 patients with type 2 diabetes from 18 English general practices recording a CV hospitalisation in 2009-2011...

OBJECTIVE To examine the efficiency of the Hong Kong hospitalisation system based on hospitalisation days. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Hospitalisation data (2000-2010) for all government-funded hospitals in Hong Kong. POPULATION Hospitalisation data for the entire Hong Kong population (7.0 million in 2011). METHODS A decomposition method was used to determine the effects on tota...

OBJECTIVES To determine factors associated with hospitalisation after community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) among older adults in England, and to investigate how these factors have contributed to increasing hospitalisations over time. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING Primary and secondary care in England. POPULATION 39,211 individuals from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, who were eligib...