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Hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: What conditions make inter-country comparisons possible?
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- Effects of Primary Healthcare Quality and Effectiveness on Hospitalization Indicators in Brazil.Journal of market access & health policy · 2025Article
- Gastrentrological clinical trials in Italy: an association study on regional economic factors and healthcare system efficiency.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Evaluating health systems through ambulatory care-sensitive conditions.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2025Article
- Impact of Insurance on Readmission Rates, Healthcare Expenditures, and Length of Hospital Stay among Patients with Chronic Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in China.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Racial Disparities in Hospitalization Due to Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions Among U.S. Children with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- The Influence of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Conditions in Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
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- Trends in the Quality of Primary Care and Acute Care in Korea From 2008 to 2020: A Cross-sectional Study.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2023Article
- National Trends in Hospitalization for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions among Korean Adults between 2008 and 2019.Yonsei medical journal · 2022Article
- Effects of continuity of care on hospitalizations and healthcare costs in older adults with dementia.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Economic and financial crisis based on Troika's intervention and potentially avoidable hospitalizations: an ecological study in Portugal.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Healthcare Utilization among Medically Underserved Patients with Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions.Health services research and managerial epidemiologyArticle
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Abstract
Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions have been extensively used in health services research to assess access, quality and performance of primary health care. Inter-country comparisons can assist policy-makers in pursuing better health outcomes by contrasting policy design, implementation and evaluation. The objective of this study is to identify the conceptual, methodological, contextual and policy dimensions and factors that need to be accounted for when comparing these types of hospitalizations across countries. A conceptual framework for inter-country comparisons was drawn based on a review of 18 studies with inter-country comparison of ambulatory care sensitive conditions hospitalizations. The dimensions include methodological choices; population's demographic, epidemiologic and socio-economic profiles and features of the health services and system. Main factors include access and quality of primary health care, availability of health workforce and health facilities, health interventions and inequalities. The proposed framework can assist in designing studies and interpreting findings of inter-country comparisons of ambulatory care sensitive conditions hospitalizations, accelerating learning and progress towards universal health coverage.
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