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causes_hospital_admission_protocol

Word document with systematic review protocol (NB. protocol written before review started, but small updates and typos corrected in September 2024).

demographics_of_studies

This is the main extraction from all the included papers. It is an .xlsx workbook with four sheets:

1. Index: Citation for 110 included papers
2. Information: Demographic and other data for each paper
3. Diagnoses: Causes of admission extracted for each paper
4. Ddict: Data dictionary for “information” tab

causes_long

This is a transformation of “demographics_of_studies” ‘re-shaped’ into very long data format. It is useful for filtering and looking by cause of admission. It is a .xlsx workbook with two sheets:

1. causes_long: causes per paper
2. ddict: data dictionary for “causes_long” tab.