Potentially Preventable Care: Ambulatory Care-sensitive Pediatric Hospitalizations in South Carolina in 1998
- 1 September 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal
- Vol. 96 (9), 850-858
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.smj.0000083853.30256.0a
Abstract
Objective We examined pediatric hospitalizations to assess personal and community factors affecting potentially preventable ambulatory care-sensitive condition (ACSC) hospitalizations. Methods Data came from the South Carolina 1998 Hospital Inpatient Encounter Database, which yielded 10,156 ACSC discharges among 81,808 pediatric hospitalizations. Analyses were performed at three levels: ACSC as a...Keywords
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