Highlights
- •Deaths and medical admissions and currently high in the UK
- •Trends defy forecasts by the Office for National Statistics
- •In some locations, deaths are running up to 22% higher than forecast
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 25, 2017
Accepted:
September 19,
2017
Received in revised form:
September 13,
2017
Received:
September 9,
2017
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© 2017 European Federation of Internal Medicine. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
