Table 5.

National crude rates of emergency hospital use for care home residents aged 65 or over across England

	Residential care homes	Nursing homes
Total number of residents in England*	66 236	81 491
Person-years of follow-up	45 639	48 758
Crude rates (number per person per year) for outcomes
Potentially avoidable emergency admissions	0.39	0.36
Emergency admissions	1.04	0.87
A&E attendances	1.44	1.10

*Residents aged 65 or over moving to care homes caring for older people during the period mid-January 2015 to mid-January 2017 in England. The same inclusion/exclusion criteria were applied as in the main analysis.

A&E, Accident & Emergency.