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Do health checks for adults with intellectual disability reduce emergency hospital admissions? Evaluation of a natural experiment

BACKGROUND: Annual health checks for adults with intellectual disability (ID) have been incentivised by National Health Service (NHS) England since 2009, but it is unclear what impact they have had on important health outcomes such as emergency hospitalisation. METHODS: An evaluation of a ‘natural e...

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Autores principales: Carey, Iain M, Hosking, Fay J, Harris, Tess, DeWilde, Stephen, Beighton, Carole, Shah, Sunil M, Cook, Derek G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5256310/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27312249
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jech-2016-207557