Scalco, RS; Nastasi, L; Hanna, MG; Quinlivan, R; (2017) Re-audit on Unplanned Hospital Admissions in Patients with Neuromuscular Diseases. Muscular Dystrophy UK: London, UK.

Text re-audit PDF.pdf - Published Version Access restricted to UCL open access staff Download (1MB)

Abstract

More patients with neuromuscular conditions were under specialised care: • 35.5% of admissions were related to patients known to a specialised neuromuscular service prior to hospital admittance as opposed to 16.2% in 2012 • The majority of admissions were under the care of Neurosciences (77%) as compared to 2012 when only 14.9% of admissions were admitted under neuroscience • More patients were seen by a neurologist specialist (81.7%) during hospital admissions as compared with the 2012 audit (33.5%) As a result some improvements were identified: • The number of preventable admissions reduced from 37.5% in 2012 to 21.9% in 2017 • The proportion of preventable admissions directly related to a known neuromuscular condition reduced from 63% in 2012 to 32.8% in 2017 • Hospital stays were shorter among admissions related to patients known to a specialised service (median: 8 days) as opposed to patients who were not known to a specialised service where hospital admissions were longer (median: 15 days) • Patients known to a specialised neuromuscular service had fewer ITU admissions (14.1%) than patients who were not known to specialised services (23.1%) • The number of readmissions in people with neuromuscular diseases reduced from 25.1% in 2012 to 12.4% in 2017 • In hospital mortality frequency reduced from 4.5% in 2012 to 0.3% in 2017

Download activity - last month

Export as XMLJSONCSV

Download activity - last 12 months

Export as XMLJSONCSV

Downloads by country - last 12 months

Export as JSONXMLCSV

Archive Staff Only

View Item