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Emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions : identifying the potential for reductions.

Author:

The King's Fund, Tian, Yang, Gao, Haiyan, and Dixon, Anna

Publication date:

2012

Abstract:

This data briefing aims to highlight for commissioners the opportunity for improving the quality of care and saving costs that reducing emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) presents. It uses Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to examine the sociodemographic patterns of emergency admissions for each ACSC and calculates ...
Transforming our health care system : ten priorities for commissioners.

Author:

Addicott, Rachael, Imison, Candace, Goodwin, Nick, Buck, David, Curry, Natasha, Naylor, Chris, Zollinger-Read, Paul, and The King's Fund

Publication date:

2013

Abstract:

Health care commissioners will need to deliver a sustainable system in the face of the most challenging financial and organisational environment seen in decades. They must shift the current emphasis on acute and episodic care towards prevention, self-care and integrated and well co-ordinated care to cope with an aging population ...