BACKGROUND Potentially preventable hospital admission (an admission deemed to be potentially preventable given appropriate care in the community-based healthcare setting) has been a topic of international research attention for almost three decades. Recently this has been largely driven by the imperative to reduce ever-increasing unplanned hospital admissions. However, identifying potentially p...

OBJECTIVE To describe the drugs and types of medicine management problems most frequently associated with preventable drug related admissions to an acute medical admissions unit. DESIGN Observation study. SETTING Medical admissions unit in a teaching hospital in Nottingham, UK. PARTICIPANTS 4093 patients seen by pharmacists on the medical admissions unit between 1 January and 30 June 2001...

OBJECTIVE To investigate trends in the incidence of acute pancreatitis by examining emergency admissions to acute public hospitals over an 8-year period; to compare trends for alcohol-related pancreatitis admissions with biliary tract-related admissions and to profile the patients admitted with an acute pancreatitis diagnosis. METHODS All in-patient emergency admissions for which an acute pan...

OBJECTIVE To analyse hospital admissions in the first 2 years of life among children with cleft lip and/or palate in England. DESIGN Analysis of national administrative data of hospital admissions. SETTING National Health Service hospitals. PATIENTS Patients born alive between 1997 and 2008 who underwent surgical cleft repair. OUTCOME MEASURES Number of admissions, including the birth e...

eady access to primary healthcare is a desire of governments, healthcare providers and the public. One indicator that is recognized as an indirect measure of access to and quality of primary healthcare is the rate of hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs). An ACSC hospitalization, also known as a potentially preventable hospitalization, is one in which an individual is...

BACKGROUND In order to assess whether the documented rise in paediatric admissions was due to inappropriate admissions, an objective measure of the appropriateness of paediatric admissions, modified for use in the United Kingdom, was used to measure the level of inappropriate admissions. The relationship of appropriateness of admissions to age, gender, time of admission and source of referral w...

OBJECTIVES Alcohol is responsible for a proportion of emergency admissions to hospital, with acute alcohol intoxication and chronic alcohol dependency (CAD) implicated. This study aims to quantify the proportion of hospital admissions through our emergency department (ED) which were thought by the admitting doctor to be (largely or partially) a result of alcohol consumption. SETTING ED of a U...

BACKGROUND This paper describes trends in hospital activity, hospital admissions, and treatments for colorectal cancer on residents of the South Thames regions (population 8 million) between 1989-1993 against the background of the Calman Report on the future of cancer services in England and Wales. METHODS The analyses are derived from UK hospital data, which are collected as finished consult...