The impact of digital technology in care homes on unplanned secondary care usage and associated costs.

"Declaration of Conflicts of Interest: None. Declaration of Sources of Funding: This work was supported by Health Data Research UK (CFC0124), which is funded by the UK Medical Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health And Social Care Directorates, Health and Social Care Research and Development Division (Welsh Government), Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland), British Heart Foundation and Wellcome. Study funding for an additional project contributed to the completion of this work. This additional project was supported by DHSC/UKRI COVID-19 Rapid Response funding. The additional project was used to clean the data prior to this analysis. Award numbers: MR/V028502/1, COVID0466. AG is funded by an EPSRC doctoral training partnership (grant number: EP/R513076/1). SM was partly funded for this research by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaborations NIHR200166. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for Health and Care Research or the Department of Health and Social Care."

"Declaration of Sources of Funding: This work was supported by Health Data Research UK (CFC0124), which is funded by the UK Medical Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, National Institute for Health Research, Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health And Social Care Directorates, Health and Social Care Research and Development Division (Welsh Government), Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland), British Heart Foundation and Wellcome. Study funding for an additional project contributed to the completion of this work. This additional project was supported by DHSC/UKRI COVID-19 Rapid Response funding. The additional project was used to clean the data prior to this analysis. Award numbers: MR/V028502/1, COVID0466. AG is funded by an EPSRC doctoral training partnership (grant number: EP/R513076/1). SM was partly funded for this research by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaborations NIHR200166. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for Health and Care Research or the Department of Health and Social Care."