What is it about?
Investigates trends in emergency admissions, A&E attendances, staff sickness absence, outpatient attendance, and deaths to demonstrate that increasing pressure on acute and emergency services appears to have an infectious basis.
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A new type of infectious agent may lie behind periods of higher emergency medical admissions
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The key point is that almost everything jumps at the same time, namely, medical admissions, A&E attendances, GP referral and/or changes in the ratio of first to follow-up appointments, NHS staff sickness absence, and even a wobble in the gender ratio at birth. Changes in policy or funding are unable to trigger such changes.
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Are emergency admissions contagious?, British Journal of Healthcare Management, May 2015, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2015.21.5.227.
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