Defining ambulatory care sensitive conditions for adults in Portugal

Table 1 Summary of relevant papers identified during the literature review to catalogue previously defined ACSCs

Author / Institution	Country	Year	Number ACSC	Method
Weissman, Gatsonis e Epstein [21]	USA	1992	12	Literature review + expert panel evaluation
Billings et al. / United Hospital Fund of New York [1]	USA	1993	28	Modified Delphi panel (6 physicians)
Sanderson e Dixon [42]	UK	2000	30	Modified Delphi panel (3 physician panels)
Davies et al. / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality [27]	USA	2001	16 Prevention Quality Indicators (PQI)	Set of measures to identify ACSC. Based on literature review, empirical testing and consensus among expert panels.
Caminal et al. / Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona [3]	Spain	2001	35	Delphi Panel (44 experts)
Brown et al. / University of Oxford [13]	Canada	2001	27	Delphi panel (13 experts) + Modified Delphi panel (12 experts) + questionnaire panel (11 experts)
Purdy et al. / Bristol University [12]	UK	2009	19	Literature review.
Alfradique et al. [16]	Brazil	2009	20	Literature review + Experts consultation
Walker et al. [43]	Canada	2009	18	Administrative data + Expert consensus (9 experts)
Freund et al. [17]	Germany	2013	26	AHRQ + expert selection
Eggli et al. [44]	Switzerland	2014	19	Based on Purdy et al. + update of ICD-10 codes for specific conditions
Naumann, Augustin e Sundmacher [45]	Germany	2014	32	Based on Purdy et al. + 2 potentially relevant diagnoses
Sundmacher et al. [18]	Germany	2015	22	Literature review + Delphi panel (40 experts)

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