Patient characteristics associated with hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Victoria, Australia

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ansari, Zahid ^a,b   Haider, Syed Imran ^a   Ansari, Humaira ^c   De Gooyer, Tanyth ^a   Sindall, Colin ^a  

^a Department of Health   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access barriers; Ambulatory care; Primary care; Socio demographic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL CLASS; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871385274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-475     Document Type: Article

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