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Increasing Short-Stay Unplanned Hospital Admissions among Children in England; Time Trends Analysis ’97–‘06

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  • Sonia Saxena
  • Alex Bottle
  • Ruth Gilbert
  • Mike Sharland

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Background: Timely care by general practitioners in the community keeps children out of hospital and provides better continuity of care. Yet in the UK, access to primary care has diminished since 2004 when changes in general practitioners' contracts enabled them to ‘opt out’ of providing out-of-hours care and since then unplanned pediatric hospital admission rates have escalated, particularly through emergency departments. We hypothesised that any increase in isolated short stay admissions for childhood illness might reflect failure to manage these cases in the community over a 10 year period spanning these changes. Methods and Findings: We conducted a population based time trends study of major causes of hospital admission in children 2 days. By 2006, 67.3% of all unplanned admissions were isolated short stays

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  • Sonia Saxena & Alex Bottle & Ruth Gilbert & Mike Sharland, 2009. "Increasing Short-Stay Unplanned Hospital Admissions among Children in England; Time Trends Analysis ’97–‘06," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 4(10), pages 1-6, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0007484
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007484
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    1. Peter J Gill & Kay Yee Wang & David Mant & Lisa Hartling & Carl Heneghan & Rafael Perera & Terry Klassen & Anthony Harnden, 2011. "The Evidence Base for Interventions Delivered to Children in Primary Care: An Overview of Cochrane Systematic Reviews," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(8), pages 1-9, August.

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