Highlights
- •Since 2011 the UK has experienced a period of unexplained higher medical admissions and deaths.
- •The trends in thrombosis appear to defy those seen in other medical diagnoses.
- •A sudden move to lower acute thrombotic admissions has occurred, along with the need for fewer occupied beds.
Abstract
Background
Since 2011 in England there has been a period of unexplained higher deaths and medical
admissions which policy makers have assumed are attributable to the increasing age
of the population and the inability of health and social care to limit demand.
Methods
Analysis of data obtained from NHS and Office of National Statistics.
Results
Contrary to the trends in certain other medical diagnoses those for thrombosis show
a shift to lower acute admissions, which mainly occur in the young as a same day stay
emergency admission. A reduction in occupied bed days also occurs.
Conclusion
A shift in the balance of inflammatory/anti-inflammatory forces may be responsible
for this dichotomous behaviour.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 07, 2017
Accepted:
September 5,
2017
Received:
August 21,
2017
Identification
Copyright
© 2017 European Federation of Internal Medicine. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
