Disparities in Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations: Near-National Estimates for Hispanics.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To obtain near-national rates of potentially preventable hospitalization (PPH)-a marker of barriers to outpatient care access-for Hispanics; to examine their differences from other race-ethnic groups and by Hispanic national origin; and to identify key mediating factors.

Data sources/study setting

Data from all-payer inpatient discharge databases for 15 states accounting for 85 percent of Hispanics nationally.

Study design

Combining counts of inpatient discharges with census population for adults aged 18 and older, we estimated age-sex-adjusted PPH rates. We examined county-level variation in race-ethnic disparities in these rates to identify the mediating role of area-level indicators of chronic condition prevalence, socioeconomic status (SES), health care

SUBMITTER: Feng C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5980361 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature