A systematic review of evidence on the association between hospitalisation for chronic disease related ambulatory care sensitive conditions and primary health care resourcing

Table 1 Studies excluded at the full article review stage ^a

Exclusion criteria at article review	Reference^{(notes for references)}
Not a diabetes-related hospitalisation or a type 2 diabetes cohort	[23–29]
Did not measure a primary health care resource input	[30–33]^(31b)
Did not adjust for patient level health risk of hospitalisation or social and economic factors that influence hospitalisation	[34–38]^(34c)
Not a peer reviewed journal article	[39]
Analysis combining hospital outcomes and primary care inputs into a regional efficiency measure	[29]
Total articles excluded on full article review	18

Notes:
^a Some articles can be allocated against more than one exclusion criteria.
^b Identify number of GP visits per individual in describing the study population but do not include in multivariate analyses.
^c Adjusted for patient level health risks using all ACSC as the dependent variable.

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