The Relationship between the Prevalence of the Urgent and Emergency Care Vanguard Participance and Delayed Transfers of Care in English Local Authorities
Table 3
Relationship between the UEC vanguard exposure and DTOC at LA level in England, the overall result and by sector identified as accountable and reason for delay.
DTOC definition
Coefficient (SE)
AIC/BIC
95% CI
Overall
−0.003 (0.001)
2450.01/2641.86
[−0.006, −0.001]
Acute
−0.003 (0.001)
3283.185/3475.034
[−0.006, −0.0005]
Nonacute
−0.004 (0.002)
4144.742/4336.591
[−0.007, −0.001]
NHS
−0.001 (0.001)
2680.062/2871.912
[−0.003, 0.001]
Social care
−0.007 (0.002)
4373.215/4565.064
[−0.010, −0.004]
Both (NHS and soc. care)
−0.003 (0.001)
1851.111/2042.961
[−0.004, −0.001]
Assessment
−0.003 (0.001)
4115.272/4307.121
[−0.005, −0.001]
Public funding
0.001 (0.001)
−355.1738/−163.3244
[−0.0005, 0.002]
NHS nonacute
−0.003 (0.001)
2518.168/2710.018
[−0.005, −0.0004]
Residential home
−0.002 (0.001)
2335.48/2527.329
[−0.004, 0.0003]
Nursing home
−0.002 (0.001)
2056.605/2248.454
[−0.004, −0.0003]
Care package
−0.005 (0.001)
2342.968/2534.817
[−0.007, −0.002]
Community equipment
−0.001 (0.0003)
−4825.189/−4633.339
[−0.001, −0.0002]
Patient/family
0.001 (0.001)
1702.072/1893.921
[−0.001, 0.003]
Dispute
0.0002 (0.0004)
−3915.408/−3723.559
[−0.0005, 0.001]
Not covered
−0.0005 (0.0003)
−1090.158/−898.309
[−0.001, 0.0001]
Note. All DTOC expressed as log transformation of days to 1 k pop, FE panel regressions, years 2012–2017, and 3,600 obs. , , ; robust standard errors are in parentheses.
