What can routine health data tell us about the need for unplanned emergency department and hospital care over winter?
Dr Atul Anand
Emergency Care
There are high pressures on NHS hospitals over winter periods particularly with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In this project we will report how recent winter hospital admissions have varied across a whole population in Lothian by the patterns of peoples’ health conditions, frailty, socioeconomic deprivation and previous NHS contacts. We will see if simple tools already available to clinicians could predict which people are more likely to need hospital care over winter, including for COVID and other winter viruses like influenza. This could help to better target preventive care....
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