Rising Emergency Admissions in the UK and the Elephant in the Room
Received Date: Jul 29, 2016 / Accepted Date: Aug 05, 2016 / Published Date: Aug 12, 2016
Abstract
Growth in emergency medical admissions in the UK is not following trends consistent with the assumed mechanisms of growth. Is ‘policy-based evidence’ ignoring the existence of very large outbreaks of a novel infectious agent?
Keywords: Emergency care systems; Acute medicine; Deaths/mortality; Dementia; Epidemiology
Citation: Jones RP (2016) Rising Emergency Admissions in the UK and the Elephant in the Room. Epidemiology (Sunnyvale) 6:261. Doi: 10.4172/2161-1165.1000261
Copyright: © 2016 Jones RP. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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