Research Article

The Relationship between the Prevalence of the Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguard Participance and Delayed Transfers of Care in English Local Authorities

Table 1

UEC vanguard exposure categories.

Exposure to UEC typeHighMediumLowNot exposed

No. of LAs in category131616105
Mean DTOC days2711.795619.273408.652363.68
Mean DTOC to 1 k pop7.118.016.566.98
Mean DTOC to 1 k pop before6.907.406.375.96
Mean DTOC to 1 k pop after7.489.026.878.69
Exposure (%)60+4.5–601–4.50–1
Mean exposure (%)85.4419.342.230.16

Note. Before and after indicate the start of the UEC vanguards programme in quarter 3 in 2015, based on a balanced sample of 3,600 obs.