Fig. 1

Distribution of hospital admissions during the study period. Five-hundred eighty-six first episodes of HaH admissions, directly from the Emergency Room (HaH-HA), were registered during the study period. A sample of 2.631 conventional hospitalizations was used to generate a usual care (UC) group, as described in the text. The entire intervention group, after propensity score matching (PSM), consisted of 441 HaH-HA patients that were compared with the corresponding matched controls (UC), as reported in (Carme H, Carme H, Erik B, Nuria S, Ruben G, Asenjo M, David N, Enric C, Fernandez J, Isaac C, Roca J. Assessment of Hospital Avoidance in a Real-World Setting: a Prospective Cohort Study, Submitted) During the study period, two-hundred consecutive HaH-HA patients were assessed with a Triple Aim approach to perform Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) that was finally done in 137 HaH-HA patients after PSM with a UC group. Comparisons between the entire HaH-HA population (n = 586), the CCA study (n = 441) and the current study (n = 137) are reported in Tables 1S-3S