Evaluation of emergency hospital admissions for inflammatory bowel disease as a possible marker of quality of care of British IBD inflammatory bowel disease units.

There is a clear association for individual patients with ≥2 admissions or A&E attendances with a lower perceived quality of care. In contrast we found no correlation on a per-unit basis for IBD admissions derived from Hospital Episode Statistics with patient-assessed quality of care. Further work is required to determine whether hospital admissions could be a useful KPI for IBD.