Impact of team-based community healthcare on preventable hospitalisation: a population-based cohort study in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The objective of this study was to explore the impact of Taiwan's Family Practice Integrated Care Project (FPICP) on hospitalisation.

Design

A population-based cohort study compared the hospitalisation rates for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) among FPICP participating and non-participating patients during 2011-2015.

Setting

The study accessed the FPICP reimbursement database of Taiwan's National Health Insurance (NHI) administration containing all NHI administration-selected patients for FPICP enrolment.

Participants

The NHI administration-selected candidates from 2011 to 2015 became FPICP participants if their primary care physicians joined the project, otherwise they became non-participants.

Interventions

The intervention of in

SUBMITTER: Jan CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7888366 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature