Seasonal and temporal trends in leading causes of hospitalisation among older adults in Hong Kong: a retrospective study across community and institutional care settings.

Although the aforementioned Spanish study specifically examined the older population and reported that among leading causes, hospitalisation for heart failure showed an increasing trend, whereas those for femoral neck fractures and neoplasms declined from 2000 to 2015. 5 To date, such detailed longitudinal data in older adults was barely reported for other countries, highlighting a significant gap in global comparative analyses of hospitalisation patterns.

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