Underutilized and undertheorized: the use of hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions for assessing the extent to which primary healthcare services are meeting needs in British Columbia First Nation communities.

CONCLUSIONS: Improving access to PHC services in First Nations communities can be associated with a significant reduction in avoidable hospitalization and premature mortality rates. The method we tested is an important tool that could serve health care planning decisions in small communities.
PMID: 30658626 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Rural Remote Health - January 18, 2019 Category: Rural Health Authors: Lavoie JG, Wong ST, Ibrahim N, O'Neil JD, Green M, Ward A Tags: BMC Health Serv Res Source Type: research