Patterns of emergency admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: a spatial cross-sectional analysis of observational data.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the spatial and temporal patterns of English general practices' emergency admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs).

Design

Observational study of practice level annual hospital emergency admissions data for ACSCs for all English practices from 2004-2017.

Participants

All patients with an emergency admission to a National Health Service hospital in England who were registered with an English general practice.

Main outcome measure

Practice level age and gender indirectly standardised ratios (ISARs) for emergency admissions for ACSC.

Results

In 2017, 41.8% of the total variation in ISARs across practices was between the 207 Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) (the administrative unit for general practices) an

SUBMITTER: Santos R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7643517 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature