Abstract
Multiple admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions: Target for intervention?
Highlights
Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) have been robustly studied as an indirect indicator of access and quality of care [1,2,3,4,5,6]
We considered multiple ACSC admissions when a patient was admitted more than once for any ACSC in the year of analysis
We identified 115.441 admissions for ACSC (11.4% of all admissions), corresponding to 94.849 patients
Summary
Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) have been robustly studied as an indirect indicator of access and quality of (primary) care [1,2,3,4,5,6]. Once these coincide with two fundamental objectives of integrated care [7] it makes sense to use the admissions for ACSC as an indirect indicator of integrated care. The present study aims to identify if patients are admitted multiple times for an ACSC. Ob jectives: Identify and characterize multiple admissions for ACSC in Portugal
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