• J Ambul Care Manage · Jan 2014

    Avoidable hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions as an indicator of primary health care effectiveness in Argentina.

    • Adolfo Rubinstein, Analía López, Joaquín Caporale, Pilar Valanzasca, Vilma Irazola, and Fernando Rubinstein.
    • Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
    • J Ambul Care Manage. 2014 Jan 1; 37 (1): 69-81.

    AbstractAvoidable hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (AH-ACSCs) identify health problems that could be avoided by improving primary health care (PHC). On the basis of hospital discharges from Argentine public sector facilities, an expert panel convened to define a list of AH-ACSCs for children and adults. AH-ACSCs represented less than 30% of hospitalizations. Compared with country averages, poorer districts showed large differences in trends for adults but not for children. Despite that AH-ACSCs have demonstrated empirical validity to evaluate health system performance, its implementation to assess PHC in countries like Argentina, with pluralistic and fragmented health care systems, remains a big challenge.

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