Underutilized and undertheorized: the use of hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions for assessing the extent to which primary healthcare services are meeting needs in British Columbia First Nation communities

Table 5 Correlation between directly adjusted rates of episodes of hospital care and premature mortality rates, 1994–2010

		No Facility	Health Station	Health Centre	Nursing Station	Other Rural BC	Urban BC	All Other BC	All BC
All ACSC conditions	Episodes of care	−0.53	0.24	0.64*	0.90**	0.65	0.89*	0.99**	0.99*
All ACSC conditions	Length of stay	−0.40	0.27	0.75*	0.93**	0.69	0.96**	1.0**	0.99**
Chronic conditions	Episodes of care	−0.46	0.11	0.48	0.93**	0.64	0.93**	0.99**	0.99**
Chronic conditions	Length of stay	−0.22	0.13	0.70*	0.91**	0.75*	0.91*	0.99**	0.99**
Vaccine preventable conditions	Episodes of care	−0.5	0.26	0.69*	0.75*	0.45	0.73*	0.96**	0.96**
Vaccine preventable conditions	Length of stay	−0.71*	0.32	0.68*	0.30	0.37	0.21	0.93**	0.92**
Acute conditions	Episodes of care	−0.53	0.24	0.66*	0.73*	0.84*	0.43	0.95**	0.95**
Acute conditions	Length of stay	−0.58*	0.55	0.59*	0.72*	0.73*	0.79*	0.98**	0.98**
Mental health conditions	Episodes of care	−0.28	0.33	0.63*	0.75*	0.53	0.38	0.93**	0.93**
Mental health conditions	Length of stay	−0.24	0.28	0.28	0.77*	0.55	0.96**	0.85**	0.85**

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