Abstract
BACKGROUND: To identify patient and general practice (GP) characteristics associated with emergency (unplanned) first admissions for cancer in secondary care., METHODS: Patients who had a first-time admission with a primary diagnosis of cancer during 2007/08 to 2009/10 were identified from administrative hospital data. We modelled the associations between the odds of these admissions being unplanned and various patient and GP practice characteristics using national data sets, including the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF)., RESULTS: There were 639,064 patients with a first-time admission for cancer, with 139,351 unplanned, from 7957 GP practices. The unplanned proportion ranged from 13.9% (patients aged 15-44 years) to 44.9% (patients aged 85 years and older, P
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1213-1219 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | British Journal of Cancer |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Comment in: Br J Cancer. 2012 Oct 9;107(8):1205-6; PMID: 23047590Keywords
- Adolescent Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Child Child, Preschool *Delayed Diagnosis Emergencies Female *General Practice/og [Organization & Administration] General Practice/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data] *Hospitalization/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data] Humans Infant Infant, Newborn Male Middle Aged *Neoplasms/di [Diagnosis] Quality Indicators, Health Care Risk Factors Secondary Care United Kingdom/ep [Epidemiology] Young Adult
