Primary Care Policy

Preparation

Risks & contraindications

Evidence quality

Highlighted claims

• ACSC-related hospitalisation rates should be interpreted cautiously when used for trends, regional variation, primary care performance, or pay-for-performance models. — Identifying ambulatory care sensitive conditions: a systematic review of studies defining sets of diseases with avoidable hospitalisations in European countries
• Future ACSC frameworks should be validated for specific populations and health systems instead of assumed transferable across countries. — Identifying ambulatory care sensitive conditions: a systematic review of studies defining sets of diseases with avoidable hospitalisations in European countries
• Future frameworks should combine clinical expertise, patient or user perspectives, literature support, real-world data, and primary care pathway evidence. — Identifying ambulatory care sensitive conditions: a systematic review of studies defining sets of diseases with avoidable hospitalisations in European countries
• Future studies should quantitatively validate ACSC lists using individual patient data. — Identifying ambulatory care sensitive conditions: a systematic review of studies defining sets of diseases with avoidable hospitalisations in European countries
• Evidence about referral decision-making and diagnostic uncertainty in ambulatory settings is needed from a primary care perspective. — Identifying ambulatory care sensitive conditions: a systematic review of studies defining sets of diseases with avoidable hospitalisations in European countries