TY - JOUR AU - Lugo-Palacios, David G. AU - Hammond, Jonathan AU - Allen, Thomas AU - Darley, Sarah AU - McDonald, Ruth AU - Blakeman, Thomas AU - Bower, Peter PY - 2019 DA - 2019/03/12 TI - The impact of a combinatorial digital and organisational intervention on the management of long-term conditions in UK primary care: a non-randomised evaluation JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 159 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Better management of long-term conditions remains a policy priority, with a focus on improving outcomes and reducing use of expensive hospital services. A number of interventions have been tested, but many have failed to show benefit in rigorous comparative research. In 2016, the NHS Test Beds scheme was launched to implement and test interventions combining digital technologies and pathway redesign in routine health care settings, with each intervention comprising multiple innovations to better realise benefit from their ‘combinatorial’ effect. We present the evaluation of one of the NHS Test Beds, which combined risk stratification algorithms, practice-based quality improvement and health monitoring and coaching to improve management of long-term conditions in a single health economy in the north-west of England. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-3984-6 DO - 10.1186/s12913-019-3984-6 ID - Lugo-Palacios2019 ER -