Emergency Admissions for Acute Conditions That Should Not Usually Require Hospital Admission
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Emergency admissions to hospital (indirectly standardised rate per 100,000 population) of persons with acute conditions (ear/nose/throat infections, kidney/urinary tract infections, angina, among others) that usually could have been avoided through better management in primary care.
Numerator
The number of finished and unfinished admission episodes, excluding transfers, for patients with an emergency method of admission and with a primary diagnosis of an acute condition that should not usually require hospital admission
Denominator
ONS mid-year population estimates
Exclusions
Transfers
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Indirectly standardised by age and gender
Stratifications
Gender - male and female Age – person Deprivation decile Condition
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Denominator: Mid-year population estimates for England published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) – National Statistics. Available in June following end of reporting year. Numerator: Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) Admitted Patient Care (APC), provided by NHS Digital – National Statistics Final annual and quarterly HES data are usually released in the November following the financial year-end.