Strategies for reducing potentially avoidable hospitalizations for ambulatory care - Sensitive conditions

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 363-370

  Freund, Tobias ^a   Campbell, Stephen M ^a,b   Geissler, Stefan ^a   Kunz, Cornelia U ^c   Mahler, Cornelia ^a   Peters Klimm, Frank ^a   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care sensitive conditions; Avoidable hospitalizations; Hospitalization; Multimorbidity; Primary health care; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; AMBULATORY CARE-SENSITIVE CONDITIONS; ARTICLE; AVOIDABLE HOSPITALIZATIONS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMORBIDITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS;

AMBULATORY CARE-SENSITIVE CONDITIONS; AVOIDABLE HOSPITALIZATIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; MULTIMORBIDITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84880063778     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.1498     Document Type: Article

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