Increased hospitalizations of elderly patients. – MIDAS

Increased hospitalizations of elderly patients.

Abstract

This issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases contains 2 articles that report increases in England in the incidence of hospitalizations for specific diseases, one on pneumonias and the other on community-acquired staphylococcal diseases. Both articles report increases in disease among those >65 years of age.

MIDAS Network Members

Marco Ajelli

Associate Professor
Indiana University Bloomington

Raffaele Vardavas

Mathematician
RAND Corporation

Jaline Gerardin

Assistant Professor
Northwestern University

Minttu Rönn

Research Associate
Harvard University

Elizabeth Carlton

Associate Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Samuel Shikaa

Lecturer
Taraba State University

Thomas Blamey

Mathematics/Statistics Faculty
University of Hawaii

Nicole Creanza

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University

Talia Quandelacy

Assistant Professor
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Akhil Rao

Assistant Professor
Middlebury College

Shi Chen

Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Syed Abbas

Associate Professor
Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi

Citation:

Meltzer MI. (2008). Increased hospitalizations of elderly patients. Emerging infectious diseases, 14(5)