Lourdes Artajona, Ana García-Martínez, Sira Aguiló, Guillermo Burillo-Putze, Aitor Alquézar-Arbé, Cesáreo Fernández, Amparo Fernández-Simón, María Fernández Cardona, María Teresa Maza Vera, Marta Iglesias Vela, Patricia Trenc Español, Manuel Salido Mota, Ángel García García, Carmen Lucena Aguilera, Ferran Llopis, Pablo Herrero, Adriana Laura Doi Grande, Leticia Serrano Lázaro, Ana Chacon García, José J Noceda Bermejo, Amanda Ibisate Cubillas, María José Hernández Martínez, Francesc Xavier Alemany González, Susana Sánchez Ramón, Begoña Espinosa Fernández, Juan González Del Castillo, Òscar Miró
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether income was associated with unexpected in-hospital mortality in older patients treated in Spanish public health system hospital emergency departments. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Fifty-one public health system hospital emergency departments in Spain voluntarily participated in the study. Together the hospitals covered 25% of the population aged 65 years or older included in all patient registers during a week in the pre-pandemic period (April 1-7, 2019) and a week during the COVID-19 pandemic (March 30 to April 5, 2020)...
December 2023: Emergencias: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Medicina de Emergencias