Table 3 Authors conclusions on variation, admission rates
Paper ID | Author Conclusions |
|---|---|
Significant Variation | |
Australia | |
Ansari 2005 | “There was a wide variation (almost fivefold) in admission rates” |
Tennant 2000 | “[8 of 32 regions] had significantly less episodes of hospitalization…than the State average” |
Canada | |
Crighton 2007 | “Marked differences in rates between counties…large variability in county rates” |
Crighton 2008 | “The heterogeneity in…hospitalization rates and significant spatial clustering” |
New Zealand | |
Barnett 2010 | “Substantial variation in admission rates” |
Dharmalingam 2004 | “Substantial geographical variation in the level of avoidable hospitalisation” |
Spain | |
Magan 2008 | “Considerable variability in these rates” |
UK | |
Giuffrida 1999 | “Clear variation…in crude admission rates” |
Starr 1996 | “There was considerable variation…between districts” |
US | |
Adams 1993 | “There was considerable geographic variation” |
Casper 2010 | “Magnitude of geographic disparity was substantial between the high- and low-rate counties” |
Chen 2011 | “Rates in 1998 and 2008 varied significantly by state” |
Gorton 2006 | “Rates vary widely” |
Holt 2011 | “Substantial geographic variations in COPD hospitalization risk among states and HSAs” |
Laditka 1999 | “Significant variation in preventable hospitalization” |
Morris 1994 | “The geographic distribution in hospital admission rates is unequivocally heterogeneous” |
Variation Exists | |
Canada | |
Curtis 2002 | “Differences observed for DKA are clinically important” |
Jin 2003 | “The incidence of…hospitalization varies” |
To 1996 | “Variation among the counties…was moderately large” |
New Zealand | |
Bandaranayake 2011 | “We observed a heterogeneous distribution” |
US | |
Maliszewski 2011 | “Hospitalization rates were dependent upon neighbouring county hospitalization rates” |
Insignificant Variation | |
UK | |
Downing 2007 | “Generally the variances were small meaning there was little unexplained variation” |
US | |
Lanska 1994 | “Hospitalization rates show relatively little small-scale variation” |
No Conclusion | |
New Zealand | |
Ellison-Loschmann 2004 | No conclusions |
US | |
Ogunniyi 2012 | No conclusions |