Table 4 Proportion of patients with an ambulatory care sensitive hospital encounter
From: Clinical characteristics and preventable acute care spending among a high cost inpatient population
All patients | High Cost (Top 5 %) | Non-High Cost (Lower 95 %) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
(n = 23,620) | (n = 968) | (n = 22,652) | ||||
N | % (95 % CI) | N | % (95 % CI) | N | % (95 % CI) | |
Any ACSC Hospitalization | 695 | 2.9 (2.7–3.2) | 58 | 6.0 (4.5–7.5) | 637 | 2.8 (2.6–3.0) |
Condition-specific Hospitalization | ||||||
- Epilepsy | 78 | 0.3 (0.2–0.4) | 7 | 0.7 (0.2–1.3) | 71 | 0.3 (0.2–0.4) |
- COPD | 266 | 1.1 (0.9–1.3) | 23 | 2.4 (1.4–3.3) | 243 | 1.1 (0.9–1.2) |
- Asthma | 47 | 0.2 (0.1–0.3) | 2 | 0.2 (0.0–0.5) | 45 | 0.2 (0.1–0.3) |
- CHF/Pulmonary Edema | 135 | 0.6 (0.5–0.7) | 12 | 1.3 (0.5–2.0) | 123 | 0.6 (0.4–0.7) |
- Hypertension | 13 | 0.1 (0.0–0.1) | 0 | 0 (0–0) | 13 | 0.1 (0.0–0.1) |
- Angina | 37 | 0.2 (0.1–0.3) | 1 | 0.1 (0.0–0.3) | 36 | 0.2 (0.1–0.3) |
- Diabetes | 112 | 0.5 (0.4–0.6) | 13 | 1.3 (0.6–2.1) | 99 | 0.4 (0.3–0.5) |