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Objectives
To measure the impact of the improvement in hospital survival rates on patients’ subsequent utilization of unplanned (emergency) admissions.
Data Sources/Study Setting
Unplanned admissions occurring in all acute hospitals of the National Health Service in England between 2000 and 2009, including 286,027 hip fractures, 375,880 AMI, 387,761 strokes, and 9,966,246 any cause admissions....
ObjectiveTo investigate whether better management of chronic conditions by family practices reduces mortality risk.
DataTwo random samples of 5 million patients registered with over 8,000 English family practices followed up for 4 years (2004/5–2007/8). Measures of the quality of disease management for 10 conditions were constructed for each family practice for each year. The outcome measure was...
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