Hospital Admission Outcomes

After inverse probability weighting, the odds ratio for hospitalisation was 0.77 with a 95% confidence interval of 0.65 to 0.91. The primary outcome was acute hospital admission from the emergency department to a clinical ward or operating theatre with a stay longer than 24 hours. Sensitivity analyses closely matched the main hospital admission result. The study suggests lower admissions may have resulted partly from transfers home or to intermediate or permanent care facilities in the GEM cohort. The GEM model may help identify older patients who can safely receive care outside an acute hospital ward.