Area level impacts on emergency hospital admissions of the integrated care and support pioneer programme in England: difference-in-differences analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether any differential change in emergency admissions could be attributed to integrated care by comparing pioneer and non-pioneer populations from a pre-pioneer baseline period (April 2010 to March 2013) over two follow-up periods: to 2014/2015 and to 2015/2016.

Design

Difference-in-differences analysis of emergency hospital admissions from English Hospital Episode Statistics.

Setting

Local authorities in England classified as either pioneer or non-pioneer.

Participants

Emergency admissions to all NHS hospitals in England with local authority determined by area of residence of the patient.

Intervention

Wave 1 of the integrated care and support pioneer programme announced in November 2013.

Primary outcome measure

Change in ho

SUBMITTER: Keeble E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6701574 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature