Why are acute admissions to hospital of children under 5 years of age increasing in the UK?

Arch Dis Child. 2018 Oct;103(10):917-919. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2017-313958. Epub 2018 Feb 23.

Sarah Neill¹, Damian Roland^{2

3}, Matthew Thompson^{4

5}, Alison Tavaré⁶, Monica Lakhanpaul⁷

¹ Faculty of Health and Society, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK.
² Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
³ Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic (PEMLA) Group, Leicester Hospitals, Leicester, UK.
⁴ Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁵ Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁶ West of England Academic Health Science Network, Bristol, UK.
⁷ General and Adolescent Paediatrics Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

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Keywords: general paediatrics; hospital admissions; paediatric practice; patient perspective.

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