Atlas of avoidable hospitalisations in Australia: ambulatory care-sensitive conditions

Avoidable hospitalisations represent a range of conditions for which hospitalisation should be able to beavoided because the disease or condition has been prevented from occurring, or because individuals have had access to timely and effective primary care. This report addresses the level and extent of regional variation in Australia in a sub-set of avoidable hospitalisations, namely those arising from ambulatory care-sensitive (ACS) conditions.

Cat. no. HSE 49; 76pp.; FREE