How local partnerships to improve urgent and emergency care have impacted delayed transfers of care from hospitals in England: an analysis based on a synthetic control estimation method.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Patients should be discharged from hospital when they are medically fit. However, discharges are often delayed for non-medical reasons including access to social care. One aim of local health and social care partnerships to improve urgent and emergency care in England (known as urgent and emergency care (UEC) vanguards) was to improve integration of health and social care, which could lead to fewer delays. Consequently, we aimed to assess the impact of UEC vanguards on delayed discharges from hospital (delayed transfers of care (DTOC)) in England.

Design

Using a synthetic control estimation method 29 local authorities (LAs) that were UEC vanguards partners were averaged into a single 'treated' unit and compared with a unit created using data from LAs that were not

SUBMITTER: Malisauskaite G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8823209 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature