Unnecessary hospitalisations and polypharmacy practices in Romania: A health system evaluation for strengthening primary health care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children and pregnant women usually have multiple contacts with the health care system. While most conditions can be managed by primary health care (PHC) providers, hospitalisations are nevertheless common and often unjustified. The number of hospitalizations decreased in Romania at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. While this is likely due to the disruption of health services and public health measures established to limit the spread of COVID-19, it also suggests that a proportion of hospitalisations prior to the pandemic were unnecessary. This healthcare system evaluation in Romania quantified unnecessary and unnecessarily prolonged hospitalisations in children, pregnant women and women hospitalised for delivery, and assessed antibiotic and polypharmacy practices in

SUBMITTER: Jullien S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10160704 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature