Population Health Management to identify and characterise ongoing health need for high-risk individuals shielded from COVID-19: a cross-sectional cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To use Population Health Management (PHM) methods to identify and characterise individuals at high-risk of severe COVID-19 for which shielding is required, for the purposes of managing ongoing health needs and mitigating potential shielding-induced harm.

Design

Individuals at 'high risk' of COVID-19 were identified using the published national 'Shielded Patient List' criteria. Individual-level information, including current chronic conditions, historical healthcare utilisation and demographic and socioeconomic status, was used for descriptive analyses of this group using PHM methods. Segmentation used k-prototypes cluster analysis.

Setting

A major healthcare system in the South West of England, for which linked primary, secondary, community and mental healt

SUBMITTER: Kenward C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7523155 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature