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Abstract
BACKGROUND: This study explored changes in short-term mortality during a national reconfiguration of emergency care starting in 2007.
METHODS: Unplanned hospital contacts at emergency departments across Denmark from 2007 to 2016. The reconfiguration was a natural experiment, resulting in individual timelines for each hospital. The outcome was in-hospital and 30-day mortality.
RESULTS: Individual patient-level data included 9,745,603 unplanned hospital contacts from 2007 to 2016 at 20 hospitals with emergency departments. We observed a sharp downwards shift in in-hospital mortality and 30-day mortality in three hospitals in relation to the reconfiguration.
CONCLUSION: This nationwide study identified three hospitals where the reconfiguration was closely associated with reduced in-hospital and 30-day mortality. In contrast, no major effects were identified for the remaining hospitals.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Acute Medicine |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 11-17 |
| ISSN | 1747-4884 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2024 |
Keywords
- Humans
- Hospital Mortality
- Emergency Medical Services
- Hospitals
- Emergency Service, Hospital
- Denmark
- Health care reform
- mortality
- emergency care
- reconfiguration
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The reconfiguration of emergency healthcare in Denmark – from the many small hospitals to a few big emergency hospitals
Fløjstrup, M., 20. Apr 2022, Syddansk Universitet. Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultet. 193 p.Research output: Thesis › Ph.D. thesis