Health system influences on potentially avoidable hospital admissions by secondary mental health service use: A national ecological study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Potentially avoidable hospital admissions (PAAs) are costly to health services and potentially harmful for patients. This study aimed to compare area-level PAA rates among people using and not using secondary mental health services in England and to identify health system features that may influence between-area PAA variation.

Methods

National ecological study using linked English hospital admissions and secondary mental health services data (2016-2018). We calculated two-year average age-sex standardised area-level PAA rates according to primary admission diagnoses for 12 physical conditions, among, first, secondary mental health service users with any non-organic diagnosis, and, second, people not in contact with secondary mental health services. We used penalis

SUBMITTER: Woodhead C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8772012 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature