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Health system influences on potentially avoidable hospital admissions by secondary mental health service use: A national ecological study
Introduction Potentially avoidable admissions (PAAs) refer to admissions for conditions that could be managed outside hospital through appropriate care.1 PAAs are costly to health services and may adversely affect patients’ wellbeing.
Health services research: building capacity to meet the needs of the health care system
Introduction The relationship between health services research (HSR), health care providers and policy-makers is changing but not quickly enough. The provision of high quality, affordable, health care is a growing challenge across the world.
Are some areas more equal than others? Socioeconomic inequality in potentially avoidable emergency hospital admissions within English local authority areas - Jessica Sheringham, Miqdad Asaria, Helen Barratt, Rosalind Raine, Richard Cookson, 2017
Introduction Emergency hospital admissions are undesirable for patients and costly for health care systems.1 Several countries have sought to reduce admissions that may be avoidable.2 Unplanned admissions for ‘ambulatory care sensitive conditions’ (ACS) is an indicator of admissions that could be avoided by care outside hospital emergency departments.3,4 In England, the National Health Service (NHS) uses unplanned admissions for ACS chronic conditions (referred to as ‘emergency admissions’)...
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