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Did government spending cuts to social care for older people lead to an increase in emergency hospital admissions? An ecological study, England 2005–2016

OBJECTIVES: Government spending on social care in England reduced substantially in real terms following the economic crisis in 2008, meanwhile emergency admissions to hospitals have increased. We aimed to assess the extent to which reductions in social care spend on older people have led to increase...

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Autores principales: Seamer, Paul, Brake, Simon, Moore, Patrick, Mohammed, Mohammed A, Wyatt, Steven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6501965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31028036
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024577