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Table 2 Variation statistics of hospitalization rate for ambulatory care sensitive conditions

From: Hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions as an indicator of access to primary care and excess of bed supply

Diagnosis

Mean

Max

Min

P90/P10

CV

SCV

ACSC hospitalization rate (all ages)

180.8

544.9

75.7

2.5

0.4

16.7

ACSC hospitalization rate (0–14)

562.9

2051.5

115.6

4.4

0.6

45.4

ACSC hospitalization rate (15–64)

76.9

264.6

28.8

2.9

0.4

22.9

ACSC hospitalization rate (65 and over)

473.1

1267.5

261.5

2.1

0.3

9.3

  1. ACSC Ambulatory care sensitive conditions, CV Coefficient of variation, SCV Systematic component of variation, P90/P10 Ratio of the rate of the area of the 90th to the 10th percentile of the distribution. The figures for the group “all ages” (first row) were adapted from references [32, 33]
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