Role of Interprofessional primary care teams in preventing avoidable hospitalizations and hospital readmissions in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study

Table 4 ACSC hospital admissions between April 1st, 2015 and March31st, 2017 among multi-morbid adults by patient characteristics from March 31st, 2003

	Patients characteristics
	Numerator	Denominator	Rate per 100
ACSC admissions and patients totals	11,963	475,611	2.52	13,160	618,363	2.13	0.39
Sex
Males	5265	186,729	2.8	5869	246,882	2.4	0.4
Female	6698	288,882	2.3	7291	371,481	2.0	0.3
Missing	–	–		–	–	0.0
Age group, yr.
18–44	1229	138,965	0.9	1288	184,059	0.7	0.2
45–64	5213	227,930	2.3	5665	296,914	1.9	0.4
65+	5521	108,716	5.1	6207	137,390	4.5	0.6
Missing		–			–	0.0
New OHIP registrants (within 10 years)
Yes	294	13,742	2.1	470	29,981	1.6	0.5
No	11,669	461,869	2.5	12,690	588,382	2.2	0.3
Income quintile
1 (low)	2742	84,198	3.3	2859	101,739	2.8	0.5
2	2710	96,387	2.8	2815	115,903	2.4	0.4
3	2338	95,925	2.4	2631	125,618	2.1	0.3
4	2161	96,214	2.2	2545	132,243	1.9	0.3
5 (high)	1972	101,596	1.9	2290	141,926	1.6	0.3
Missing	40	1291	3.1	20	934	2.1	1
Rurality Index of Ontario
Major urban (0 to 9)	5741	257,792	2.2	9396	475,286	2.0	0.2
Semi-urban (10 to 39)	4062	150,810	2.7	2809	111,986	2.5	0.2
Rural (≥40)	2060	63,866	3.2	881	28,970	3.0	0.2
Missing	100	3143	3.2	74	2121	3.5	−0.3
Resource utilization band (RUB)
0 (non-user)	37	2157	1.7	56	2431	2.3	−0.6
1	40	2252	1.8	27	2595	1.0	0.8
2	399	23,325	1.7	382	27,403	1.4	0.3
3	6410	306,213	2.1	7081	399,620	1.8	0.3
4	3370	109,010	3.1	3773	146,389	2.6	0.5
5 (very high user)	1707	32,654	5.2	1841	39,925	4.6	0.6
Missing
Patients with Chronic disease
2 + Co-morbidity
Yes	11,963	475,611	2.5	13,160	618,363	2.1	0.4
No	–	–		–	–
3+ comorbidities
Yes	7635	257,141	3.0	8657	257,141	3.4	−0.4
No	4328	280,783	1.5	4503	361,222	1.2	0.3
4+ comorbidities
Yes	4213	71,285	5.9	4841	95,323	5.1	0.8
No	7750	404,326	1.9	8319	523,040	1.6	0.3
5+ comorbidities
Yes	1949	23,824	8.2	2329	32,368	7.2	1
No	10,014	451,787	2.2	10,831	585,995	1.8	0.4

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