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Differential admission of veterans to private hospitals, especially during the earlier periods, could have resulted in underestimation or overestimation of the risk of hospital admissions for some conditions in the cohort.
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Possible explanations include improvements in stroke care in clinical areas outside stroke units such that the differential benefit of admission to a stroke unit is less noticeable in contemporary medical practice, or that a delay in admission to a stroke unit does not incur significant mortality risk provided that admission eventually occurs.
Using propensity score methods to control for selection, we do not find evidence of differential outcomes by admission to SU or other wards.
Case notes of children admitted to this paediatric secondary and tertiary referral hospital from January 1st to April 30th 2000 were reviewed to see if a CNS infection or meningococcal septicamia were included in their differential diagnosis at admission.
In order to investigate if the observed differential in NICU admission was based on low gestation or physiologic compromise of older infants, we analyzed the data limiting gestation to infants ≥ 35 weeks.
The largest attenuation is observed with respect to the effect of date of diagnosis, suggesting other factors explain the association between differential rates of admission and date of diagnosis observed in simple analyses.
Within the time-varying risk model set, the differential impact of admission at nights and weekends was explored by developing three separate models that 1/treated all days as having equal risk, 2/distinguished the risk of weekdays from weekends, or 3/modeled both daily and weekly periodicities in the risk of death following admission.
50% of the latter are paid on the basis of the planned number of emergency admissions, and 50% as per actual admissions ("differential tariff").
Each of these changes contributed to the overall increase in emergency admissions observed over the study period and will have biased our results if they had differential impacts on admissions for incentivised and non-incentivised conditions.
More specifically, this paper reports on differentials in ASCSs admission rates among subgroups of the population included SES and rurality.
Factors that have previously been examined to explain reasons for differentials in ACSCs admission rates across geographic areas and subgroups of populations include: demographic, socio-economic status (SES), rurality, health system factors, prevalence, life style factors, environment, adherence to medication, propensity to seek care, and severity of illness [ 21].
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