TY - JOUR AU - Magan, Purificacion AU - Otero, Angel AU - Alberquilla, Angel AU - Ribera, Jose Manuel PY - 2008 DA - 2008/02/18 TI - Geographic variations in avoidable hospitalizations in the elderly, in a health system with universal coverage JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 42 VL - 8 IS - 1 AB - The study of Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSH) has been proposed as an indirect measure of access to and receipt of care by older persons at the entryway to the Spanish public health system. The aim of this work is to identify the rates of ACSH in persons 65 years or older living in different small-areas of the Community of Madrid (CM) and to detect possible differences in ACSH. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-42 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-8-42 ID - Magan2008 ER -