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Research Article 2025CC BYFree full text

Socioeconomic differences in discharge against medical advice and hospital admission among emergency department visits associated with substance use in the United States.

Zahra Mojtahedi, Pearl Kim, Ji Yoo, Binglong Wang, Jay J Shen

Background Discharge against medical advice (DAMA) and inpatient admission (IA) among emergency department (ED) visits are two important outcomes in hospital utilization, while the first one has been mainly considered a negative outcome. Aims This study aimed to examine the association of socioeconomic factors with DAMA and IA among ED visits with substance use (age 12-64 years) before and after the COVID-19 pande…

Frontiers in Public Health Europe PMC

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Research Article 2023-10-21CC BYFree full text

Developing and validating a clinical prediction model to predict epilepsy-related hospital admission or death within the next year using administrative healthcare data: a population-based cohort study protocol

Gashirai K. Mbizvo, Glen P. Martin, Laura J. Bonnett, Pieta Schofield, Hilary Garret, Alan Griffiths +4 more

IntroductionThis retrospective open cohort study develops and externally validates a clinical prediction model (CPM) to predict the joint risk of two important outcomes occurring within the next year in people with epilepsy (PWE): A) seizure-related emergency department or hospital admission; and B) epilepsy-related death. This will provide clinicians with a tool to predict either or both of these common outcomes.…

medRxiv