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Predicting who will use intensive social care: case finding tools based on linked health and social care data.
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PMID:  21252036     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
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BACKGROUND: the costs of delivering health and social care services are rising as the population ages and more people live with chronic diseases. OBJECTIVES: to determine whether predictive risk models can be built that use routine health and social care data to predict which older people will begin receiving intensive social care. DESIGN: analysis of pseudonymous, person-level, data extracted from the administrative data systems of local health and social care organisations. SETTING: five primary care trust areas in England and their associated councils with social services responsibilities. SUBJECTS: people aged 75 or older registered continuously with a general practitioner in five selected areas of England (n = 155,905). METHODS: multivariate statistical analysis using a split sample of data. RESULTS: it was possible to construct models that predicted which people would begin receiving intensive social care in the coming 12 months. The performance of the models was improved by selecting a dependent variable based on a lower cost threshold as one of the definitions of commencing intensive social care. CONCLUSIONS: predictive models can be constructed that use linked, routine health and social care data for case finding in social care settings.
Authors:
Martin Bardsley; John Billings; Jennifer Dixon; Theo Georghiou; Geraint Hywel Lewis; Adam Steventon
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2011-1-20
Journal Detail:
Title:  Age and ageing     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1468-2834     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2011 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-1-21     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0375655     Medline TA:  Age Ageing     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
Affiliation:
The Nuffield Trust, 59 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP, UK.
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