Unplanned Hospitalisation for Chronic Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Directly age and sex standardised admission rate for unplanned hospitalisation for chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions per 100,000 registered patients, 95% confidence intervals (CI). Measures how many people with specific long-term conditions, which should not normally require hospitalisation, are admitted to hospital in an emergency. These conditions include, for example, diabetes, epilepsy and high blood pressure.
Numerator
The number of finished and unfinished admission episodes, excluding transfers, for patients with an emergency method of admission and with a primary diagnosis for chronic ambulatory care sensitive conditions.
Denominator
Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) level count of patients registered with the constituent GP Practices extracted from NHAIS (Exeter) Systems.
Exclusions
Sex as unknown or unspecified, excludes birth, delivery and mental health episodes, day case, regular day/night attenders and mothers and babies using only delivery facilities), patients who are registered with GPs outside England.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Directly age and sex standardised
Stratifications
By age, gender, lower tier local authority, upper tier local authority, region, deprivation decile and condition.
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
National Health Application & Infrastructure Services (NHAIS), Hospital Episode Statistics Admitted Patient Care (HES APC).