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ABSTRACT: Objective
To evaluate the impact on healthcare utilisation frequencies and charges, and mortality of a programme for frequent hospital utilisers and a programme for patients requiring high acuity post-discharge care as part of an integrated healthcare model.Design
A retrospective quasi-experimental study without randomisation where patients who received post-discharge care interventions were matched 1:1 with unenrolled patients as controls.Setting
The National University Health System (NUHS) Regional Health System (RHS), which was one of six RHS in Singapore, implemented the NUHS RHS Integrated Interventions and Care Extension (NICE) programme for frequent hospital utilisers and the NUHS Transitional Care Programme (NUHS TCP) for high acuity post-discharge care. The programmes were supported by the Ministry of Health in Singapore, which is a city-state nation located in Southeast Asia with a 5.6?million population.Participants
Linked healthcare administrative data, for the time period of January 2013 to December 2016, were extracted for patients enrolled in NICE (n=554) or NUHS TCP (n=270) from June 2014 to December 2015, and control patients.Interventions
For both programmes, teams conducted follow-up home visits and phone calls to monitor and manage patients' post-discharge.Primary outcome measures
One-year pre- and post-enrolment healthcare utilisation frequencies and charges of all-cause inpatient admissions, emergency admissions, emergency department attendances, specialist outpatient clinic (SOC) attendances, total inpatient length of stay and mortality rates were compared.Results
Patients in NICE had lower mortality rate, but higher all-cause inpatient admission, emergency admission and emergency department attendance charges. Patients in NUHS TCP did not have lower mortality rate, but had higher emergency admission and SOC attendance charges.Conclusions
Both NICE and NUHS TCP had no improvements in 1?year healthcare utilisation across various setting and metrics. Singular interventions might not be as impactful in effecting utilisation without an overhauling transformation and restructuring of the hospital and healthcare system.
SUBMITTER: Ang IYH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6538026 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ang Ian Yi Han IYH Tan Chuen Seng CS Nurjono Milawaty M Tan Xin Quan XQ Koh Gerald Choon-Huat GC Vrijhoef Hubertus Johannes Maria HJM Tan Shermin S Ng Shu Ee SE Toh Sue-Anne SA
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<h4>Objective</h4>To evaluate the impact on healthcare utilisation frequencies and charges, and mortality of a programme for frequent hospital utilisers and a programme for patients requiring high acuity post-discharge care as part of an integrated healthcare model.<h4>Design</h4>A retrospective quasi-experimental study without randomisation where patients who received post-discharge care interventions were matched 1:1 with unenrolled patients as controls.<h4>Setting</h4>The National University ...[more]