Unplanned Hospital Use

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• The study selected unplanned hospital admissions and unplanned accident and emergency attendances as outcomes because they burden patients, families, and health services and can indicate health and social care inequalities. — Can social prescribing intervention reduce unplanned hospital usage in an ethnically diverse and deprived population: a quasi-experimental study using a dynamic staggered difference-in-differences approach
• CLICS was associated with a 2.1 percentage point reduction in unplanned hospital admissions compared with matched controls. — Can social prescribing intervention reduce unplanned hospital usage in an ethnically diverse and deprived population: a quasi-experimental study using a dynamic staggered difference-in-differences approach
• CLICS was associated with a 2.4 percentage point reduction in unplanned A&E attendances compared with controls. — Can social prescribing intervention reduce unplanned hospital usage in an ethnically diverse and deprived population: a quasi-experimental study using a dynamic staggered difference-in-differences approach
• Unplanned hospital admissions gradually decreased after CLICS began and became statistically significantly lower than controls after four quarters. — Can social prescribing intervention reduce unplanned hospital usage in an ethnically diverse and deprived population: a quasi-experimental study using a dynamic staggered difference-in-differences approach
• The largest statistically significant A&E reductions appeared in the last two quarters of follow-up. — Can social prescribing intervention reduce unplanned hospital usage in an ethnically diverse and deprived population: a quasi-experimental study using a dynamic staggered difference-in-differences approach