Disparities in Potentially Avoidable Emergency Department (ED) Care: ED Visits for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

Introduction: Hospital care for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSC) is potentially avoidable and often viewed as an indicator of suboptimal primary care. However, potentially preventable encounters with the health care system also occur in emergency department (ED) settings. We examined ED v...

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Published in:Medical care 2012-12, Vol.50 (12), p.1020-1028
Main Authors: Johnson, Pamela Jo, Ghildayal, Neha, Ward, Andrew C., Westgard, Bjorn C., Boland, Lori L., Hokanson, Jon S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acute Disease
Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Aged
Ambulatory care
Ambulatory Care - standards
Asthma
Chronic Disease
Chronic diseases
Delivery of Health Care
Diabetes
Emergency departments
Emergency medical care
Emergency medical services
Emergency Service, Hospital - utilization
Female
Health care
Health care delivery
Health care policy
Health insurance
Health policy
Health Services Accessibility - statistics & numerical data
Healthcare Disparities - statistics & numerical data
Hospitalization
Humans
Male
Medicaid
Middle Aged
Patient care
Primary health care
Regression analysis
Socioeconomic Factors
Socioeconomics
Subpopulations
Young Adult
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