How emergency diagnosis can change disease outlook
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Why it matters for dental
Dental practices that treat medically complex patients may see more late-stage systemic disease first detected in emergency visits; these patients show higher one-year mortality and longer hospital stays, increasing treatment complexity and risk.
Key points
- UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink, Hospital Episode Statistics and Office for National Statistics data from 1999–2019 covered 1.7 million patients across 13 nonmalignant conditions.
- Investigators found that ≥20 % of patients in nine of the disease groups received their first diagnosis during an emergency visit.
- Patients diagnosed in an emergency setting had a higher likelihood of death within one year after adjusting for age, year of diagnosis, deprivation, comorbidity burden and healthcare setting.
- The same emergency-diagnosed cohort spent more days in hospital during the year following diagnosis.
Who should care
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