Cardiovascular disease integrated care pilot to improve patient outcomes closer to home

"Within the context of a growing elderly population and better survival of people with CVD conditions, this project aimed to support patients to remain in the community for as long as is clinically possible, avoid hospital admissions and reduce length of stay."

Cardiovascular disease: integrated care pilot to improve patient outcomes closer to home
British Heart Foundation
NICE Quality and Productivity case study
May 2016

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Are reductions in emergency department length of stay associated with improvements in quality of care?

"We sought to determine whether patients seen in hospitals who had reduced overall emergency department (ED) length of stay (LOS) in the 2 years following the introduction of the Ontario Emergency Room Wait Time Strategy were more likely to experience improvements in other measures of ED quality of care for three important conditions."

Are reductions in emergency department length of stay associated with improvements in quality of care? A difference-in-differences analysis
MJ Vermeulen et al.
BMJ Qual Saf 2016;25:489-498 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004189

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Moving healthcare closer to home

"Support for providers and commissioners to make evidence-based appraisals of how the benefits compare with the costs of various approaches to move care closer to home."

Moving healthcare closer to home

Monitor

September 2015

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