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       How many emergency admissions were ambulatory care sensitive in 
       2012/13?
       By: admini5 Date: October 12, 2015, 7:11 am
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       How many emergency admissions were ambulatory care sensitive in
       2012/13?
       #Post#: 316--------------------------------------------------
       Re: How many emergency admissions were ambulatory care sensitive
        in 2012/13?
       By: Sayyam Date: October 12, 2015, 7:16 am
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       In the period between 1 April 2012 and 31 March 2013, English
       NHS hospitals received nearly 5.3 million emergency admissions.
       A small number, fewer than 2 per cent of these (80,284), were
       excluded from the study due to invalid age or gender codes, or
       were for people resident outside England.
       Of the remaining admissions, 1,044,407 (20.1%) were recorded as
       falling within one of the 27 conditions defined as ACS. The mean
       age of patients admitted as an emergency with an ACS condition
       was 55 years; 52 per cent were female. The number and rates of
       potentially avoidable emergency admission differed notably by
       age and gender.
       The differences in rates of emergency admissions between age
       groups demonstrate the importance of standardising for age when
       comparing rates between areas. If an area has an unusually high
       proportion of older people,we would expect its rate of
       potentially avoidable admissions to be higher. Standardisation
       is required also when comparing rates of emergency admissions
       over time, as the population of England continues to get older.
       The age-standardised rate of admission for ACS conditions in
       2012/13 was 1,613 per 100,000 people.
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