OBJECTIVES To determine the impact on outcomes in patients of the Evercare approach to case management of elderly people. DESIGN Practice level before and after analysis of hospital admissions data with control group. SETTING Nine primary care trusts in England that, in 2003-5, piloted case management of elderly people selected as being at high risk of emergency admission. MAIN OUTCOME ME...

OBJECTIVE To identify trends in emergency admissions for patients with clinical conditions classed as 'ambulatory care sensitive' (ACS) and assess if reductions might be due to improvements in preventive care. DESIGN Observational study of routinely collected hospital admission data from March 2001 to April 2011. Admission rates were calculated at the population level using national populatio...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to predict the emergency admission of elderly stroke patients in Shanghai by using a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network. MATERIAL AND METHODS Patients (>60 years) with first-ever stroke registered in the Emergency Center of Neurology Department, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, from January 2012 to June 2014 were enrolled into the present study. D...

BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis is a significant cause of acute morbidity in the first 12 months of life and some infants with bronchiolitis are admitted to hospital. No studies have yet devised a scoring system to predict admission for routine use in the emergency department. AIM To identify clinical predictors of hospital admission in infants with acute bronchiolitis and to devise a simple clinica...

intreduction hospitals as main health care prouders have always received great aftention. and in hospitals , special attention ust be paid to the admission unit and its management and organization. the unit plays important role in the evaluation of the hospital. methods and materials it is a descriptive study in which nine inpatients admission units and six outpatient admission units were exami...

BACKGROUND The involuntary admission regulated under the Mental Health Act has become an increasingly important issue in the developed countries in recent years. Most studies about the distribution and associated factors of involuntary admission were carried out in the western countries; however, the results may vary in different areas with different legal and socio-cultural backgrounds. AIMS...

OBJECTIVE To investigate a reported rise in the emergency hospital admission of children in England for conditions usually managed in the community. SETTING AND DESIGN Population-based study of hospital admission rates for children aged under 15, based on analysis of Hospital Episode Statistics and population estimates for England, 1999-2010. MAIN OUTCOME Trends in rates of emergency admiss...

BACKGROUND In the United Kingdom there has been a long term pattern of increases in children's emergency admissions and a substantial increase in short stay unplanned admissions. The emergency admission rate (EAR) per thousand population for breathing difficulty, feverish illness and diarrhoea varies substantially between children living in different Primary Care Trusts (PCTs). However, there h...