Hospitalisations related to nervous-system diseases in Australia, 1998-2019: a secular trend analysis
Date
2023Item Type
ArticleAbstract
OBJECTIVE: The burden of neurological disease-related disabilities and deaths is one of the most serious issues globally. We aimed to examine the hospitalisation profile related to nervous system diseases in Australia for the duration between 1998 and 2019. DESIGN: A secular trend analysis using a population-based dataset. SETTING: This analysis used a population-based study of hospitalised patients in Australia. Hospitalisation data were extracted from the National Hospital Morbidity Database, which collects sets of episode-level information for Australian patients admitted to all private and public hospitals. PARTICIPANTS: All patients who were hospitalised in all private and public hospitalisations. PRIMARY OUTCOME MEASURE: Hospitalisation rates related to nervous system diseases. RESULTS: Hospitalisation rates increased by 1.04 times (from 650.36 (95% CI 646.73 to 654.00) in 1998 to 1328.90 (95% CI 1324.44 to 1333.35) in 2019 per 100 000 persons, p[removed]
Author
Abuhamdah, Sawsan Ma
Naser, Abdallah Y.