SMJ articles in the category "ambulatory care sensitive conditions"

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Infant Health Outcomes Associated with Voluntary Health Care Model Change in a Choice-Based Medicaid System

Background:Medicaid health plan enrollment changes may be a barrier to optimal care and may increase costs.Methods:Data represented 45,768 infants enrolled in Medicaid in South Carolina, 2000–2002. We examined associations between health plan changes and preventive health care, sick infant doctor visits, emergency department (ED) visits, and hospitalizations.Results:In adjusted results, compared…

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Potentially Preventable Care: Ambulatory Care-sensitive Pediatric Hospitalizations in South Carolina in 1998

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 percentage…

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