Ambulatory Care-Sensitive Hospital Admissions: Access to Care or Population Health?

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>BackgroundAdmission rates for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs) are often used by health systems as a measure of access to effective primary and preventive care. However, there is debate about whether ACSC admissions primarily reflect social determinants of population health and are largely insensitive to ambulatory care quality. To provide evidence for this debate, this stud...

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• Disease Management
• Guideline Adherence
• Health Services Accessibility
• Healthcare Disparities
• Mortality
• Pain
• Pain Management
• Socioeconomic Factors

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Literature Corpus work

310bd767-28d9-5f26-9a80-e3b78daba740

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-131593/v1