Admission and readmission rate incidences from deprived areas —impact of a classical or multi-dimensional model

ConclusionDeprivation influences hospital incidence rates for emergency medical admissions and readmissions; instruments focusing at the very small area (individual or street level) have a utility but appear inferior in terms of representing the population risk of environmental/socio-economic factors which seem best approximated at a larger scale.
Source: Irish Journal of Medical Science - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research