Broadband access, housing and car ownership as deprivation predictors of the emergency medical admission

Eur J Intern Med. 2016 Nov:35:e25-e26. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2016.07.005. Epub 2016 Jul 19.

Authors

Richard Conway¹, Sean Cournane², Declan Byrne¹, Deirdre O'Riordan¹, Seamus Coveney³, Bernard Silke⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland.
² Medical Physics and Bioengineering Department, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland.
³ Envo-Geo Environmental Geoinformatics, Wexford, Ireland.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, St James's Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland. Electronic address: bernardsilke@physicians.ie.

PMID: 27449118
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2016.07.005

No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiac workload; Deprivation index; Emergency medical admission.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Automobiles
Databases, Factual
Emergency Medical Services / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Hospital Mortality
Housing
Humans
Internet
Male
Middle Aged
Multivariate Analysis
Ownership
Patient Admission / statistics & numerical data*
Regression Analysis
Severity of Illness Index
Socioeconomic Factors*