'Missingness' in health care: Associations between hospital utilization and missed appointments in general practice. A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Are multiple missed appointments in general practice associated with increased use of hospital services and missingness from hospital care? This novel study explores this in a population representative sample for the first time.

Design, setting, participants

A large, retrospective cohort (n = 824,374) of patient records from a nationally representative sample of GP practices, Scotland, 2013-2016. Requested data were extracted by a Trusted Third Party for the NHS, anonymised and linked to a unique patient ID, in the NHS Safehaven for analysis using established NHS Scotland linkage. We calculated the per-patient number of GP missed appointments from individual appointments and investigated the likelihood of hospital appointment or admission outcomes using a negative

SUBMITTER: Williamson AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8224850 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature