Trends, variations and prediction of staff sickness absence rates among NHS ambulance services in England: a time series study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Our aim was to measure ambulance sickness absence rates over time, comparing ambulance services and investigate the predictability of rates for future forecasting.

Setting

All English ambulance services, UK.

Design

We used a time series design analysing published monthly National Health Service staff sickness rates by gender, age, job role and region, comparing the 10 regional ambulance services in England between 2009 and 2018. Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Seasonal ARIMA (SARIMA) models were developed using Stata V.14.2 and trends displayed graphically.

Participants

Individual participant data were not available. The total number of full-time equivalent (FTE) days lost due to sickness absence (including non-working days) and

SUBMITTER: Asghar ZB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8483034 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature