Transfer of residents to hospital prior to cardiac death: the influence of nursing home quality and ownership type.

22 Consistent with our finding of a marginally significant association between a dementia or senility-related condition and death prior to transfer, previous studies have found that residents with dementia are less likely to be hospitalised. 22 This finding may be partially explained by previous research that found that the majority of nursing home residen

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A senility-related contributory cause of death (OR=1.39 95% CI 0.99 to 1.94) and female gender (OR=1.21 95% CI 0.97 to 1.50) had borderline significant associations with no transfer prior to death.

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