Journal article
Hospitalization for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions: a method for comparative access and quality studies using routinely collected statistics.
- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Appropriate and timely provision of ambulatory care is an important factor in maintaining population health and in avoiding unneccessary hospital use. This article describes conditions for which hospitalization rates have a strong and inverse relationship to access to high-quality ambulatory care. METHODS: Three panels of Canadian physicians following different consensus techniques selected conditions for which the relative risk of hospitalization is inversely related to ambulato...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique
- Volume:
- 92
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 155-159
- Publication date:
- 2001-01-01
- EISSN:
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1920-7476
- ISSN:
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0008-4263
- Source identifiers:
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162609
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:162609
- UUID:
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uuid:c582e0ba-6d80-4472-a10a-fc446553290d
- Local pid:
- pubs:162609
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2001
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