Patient characteristics associated with hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in Victoria, Australia

Table 2 Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs) and non-ACSCs hospitalisation rate in the adult and paediatric population in Victoria, 2003/04

	Hospitalisations per 1,000 population
Age group	Adult ACSCs	Adult Non-ACSCs^*	PaediatricACSCs	Paediatric Non-ACSCs^*
00-05			34.60	29.70
06-17			10.12	7.97
18-24	12.29	18.95
25-34	12.89	27.68
35-44	15.54	27.22
45-54	23.45	33.59
55-64	46.00	50.22
65-74	92.01	77.91
75-84	168.05	103.62
85+	206.03	96.04
Males	40.57	38.05	18.79	15.75
Females	39.79	43.99	16.95	13.94

^*The numerator for non-ACSCs was taken to be the sample from the Victorian Admitted Episode Dataset (VAED) to match the numbers of ACSCs rather than all non-ACSCs admissions for 2003-04. Hence non-ACSCs admission rates are an underestimate of the true rates of non-ACSCs admissions in the population in 2003-04.

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