Percentage of patients with a hospital stay for specified conditions who saw their physician within 7 days of discharge. Conditions include: Acute Myocardial Infarction (age>= 45 years); Cardiac conditions (excluding AMI, CHF) (age>= 40 years); Congestive heart failure (age>=45 years); Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Pneumonia (all ages); Diabetes (all ages); Stroke (age>=45 years); Gastrointestinal disease (all ages).

Ontario physician visits taking place in office, home, or long-term care; Physician visits occurring within 0 to 7 days of discharge (i.e., includes date of discharge).

Discharges from acute care hospitals with discharge date in the reporting period; Inpatient episodes assigned to any of the conditions; Cases that are typical, transfer in, short stay, long stay or long stay transfer in per the HIG atypical indicator.

Deaths, acute transfers, patient sign-outs against medical advice; Records with missing or invalid data on discharge/admission date, health number, age or gender; Transfers to other hospital care and to other (palliative care/hospice, addiction treatment centre).

Age, discharge destination.

Discharge Abstract Database (DAD), Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI); Claims History Database (CHDB), Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC).

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