Interventions to reduce inequalities in avoidable hospital admissions: explanatory framework and systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Internationally there is pressure to contain costs due to rising numbers of hospital admissions. Alongside age, socioeconomic disadvantage is the strongest risk factor for avoidable hospital admission. This equity-focussed systematic review is required for policymakers to understand what has been shown to work to reduce inequalities in hospital admissions, what does not work and where the current gaps in the evidence-base are.

Methods and analysis

An initial framework shows how interventions are hypothesised to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in avoidable hospital admissions. Studies will be included if the intervention focusses exclusively on socioeconomically disadvantaged populations or if the study reports differential effects by socioeconomic status (educ

SUBMITTER: Sowden S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7380849 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature