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Emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions : identifying the potential for reductions.

Author:

The King's Fund, Tian, Yang, Gao, Haiyan, and Dixon, Anna

Publication date:

2012

Abstract:

This data briefing aims to highlight for commissioners the opportunity for improving the quality of care and saving costs that reducing emergency hospital admissions for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) presents. It uses Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data to examine the sociodemographic patterns of emergency admissions for each ACSC and calculates ...