Cure8 research brief
Avoidable unplanned hospital admissions are common and costly for people with IBD. This study suggests many such admissions stem from healthcare access and service delivery problems—not just disease severity—so system changes could reduce them.
Clinicians and IBD care teams, health system administrators and policymakers, adult patients with IBD and caregivers, and researchers studying healthcare access and service delivery.
This Frontline Gastroenterology article reports a mixed-methods study (survey + interviews) of UK/European clinicians about causes and barriers to unplanned hospital admissions in IBD. Clinicians ranked disease progression, missed opportunities for earlier intervention, and patient access issues as top causes.
Interviews highlighted missed opportunities in outpatient/primary care, delays accessing specialist care, and system-level constraints blocking timely action. The article focuses on service factors and suggests solutions such as investment in care navigation, rapid-access pathways, professional decision support, patient education, and service integration.
The study is presented as an abstract/summary of clinician perspectives and uses Candidacy Theory to interpret access issues. It does not report new drug or procedural trial results; findings reflect clinician perceptions and descriptive/qualitative analysis.
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Findings are based on clinician survey responses and interviews (80 survey respondents, 13 interviews) and reflect perceived causes and barriers rather than measured patient-level outcomes. The article focuses on UK/European professional networks, which may affect transferability to other settings.
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