Geographic variations in avoidable hospitalizations in the elderly, in a health system with universal coverage
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- 18 February 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 8 (1) , 42
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-42
Abstract
The study of Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSH) has been proposed as an indirect measure of access to and receipt of care by older persons at the entryway to the Spanish public health system. The aim of this work is to identify the rates of ACSH in persons 65 years or older living in different small-areas of the Community of Madrid (CM) and to detect possible differences in ACSH.Keywords
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