BMJ quality & safety
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BMJ quality & safety · Jun 2019
Drivers of potentially avoidable emergency admissions in Ireland: an ecological analysis.
Many emergency admissions are deemed to be potentially avoidable in a well-performing health system. ⋯ The results suggest potentially avoidable emergency admissions and total/other emergency admissions are primarily driven by socioeconomic conditions, hospital admission policy and private health insurance coverage. The distinction between potentially avoidable and all other emergency admissions may not be as useful as previously believed when attempting to identify the causes of regional variation in emergency admission rates.