Primary Health Care Research & Information Service
Abstract
Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) “represent a range of conditions for
which hospitalisation should be able to be avoided because the disease or condition
has been prevented from occurring, or because individuals have had access to
timely and effective primary care”. This RESEARCH ROUNDup investigates the
factors that may predict avoidable hospital admissions. It also provides an overview
of interventions that may be effective in reducing avoidable hospitalisations, and
follows from a previous issue that examined the scope of ACSCs in Australia, and
their reliability as a measure of primary health care (PHC) performance