ArticleThe Lancet regional health. Europe2021
The hospital admission profile of people presenting to specialist addiction services with problematic use of alcohol or opioids: A national retrospective cohort study in England.
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- Predictors of 30-day readmission among those treated with alcohol withdrawal in acute hospitals in England.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2025Article
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- Development of an Interprofessional Psychosocial Interventions Framework.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
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- What do lifetime hospitalisation patterns tell us about people receiving specialist addiction services in England?The Lancet regional health. Europe · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundOver the past decade in England the rate of alcohol and opioid-related hospitalisation has increased alongside a simultaneous reduction in people accessing specialist addiction treatment. We aimed to determine the hospitalisation patterns of people presenting to addiction treatment with problematic use of alcohol or opioids, and estimate how individual sociodemographic characteristics and hospital admission diagnoses are associated with the rate of hospitalisation, death and successful completion of addiction treatment.
methodsA national record linkage between Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) captured lifetime hospital admission profiles of people presenting to addiction services in England in 2018/19. Latent class analysis assigned individuals to clusters based on the ICD-10 diagnosis coded as primary reason for admission. Negative binomial, and multilevel logistic regression models determined if outcomes differed due to sociodemographic characteristics or assigned diagnostic clusters.
findingsInpatient data were available for 64,840 alcohol patients, and 107,296 opioid patients. The most common reasons for admission were alcohol withdrawal (
interpretationThis is the first study to interrogate national hospitalisation patterns within people presenting to addiction services with problematic use of alcohol or opioids. Having identified high-risk, high-cost individuals with increased hospital usage, and increased odds of death, future work should focus on targeting appropriate interventions, to improve their health outcomes and prevent unnecessary hospital readmission.
fundingThe work was funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC).
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