TY - JOUR AU - Walker, NJ AU - Van Woerden, HC AU - Kiparoglou, V. AU - Yang, Y. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/07/26 TI - Identifying seasonal and temporal trends in the pressures experienced by hospitals related to unscheduled care JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 307 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - As part of an electronic dashboard operated by Public Health Wales, senior managers at hospitals in Wales report daily “escalation” scores which reflect management opinion on the pressure a hospital is experiencing and ability to meet ongoing demand with respect to unscheduled care. An analysis was undertaken of escalation scores returned for 18 hospitals in Wales between the years 2006 and 2014 inclusive, with a view to identifying systematic temporal patterns in pressure experienced by hospitals in relation to unscheduled care. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1555-7 DO - 10.1186/s12913-016-1555-7 ID - Walker2016 ER -