Using hospital admissions data for 2005–2007 this paper examines variations in avoidable
hospital admission rates between general practitioner surgeries in Christchurch, New …

Background: Geographic rates of preventable hospitalization are used internationally as an
indicator of accessibility and quality of primary care. Much research has correlated the …

Objective: To determine the effect of deprivation on variations in general practitioners'
referral rates using the Jarman underprivileged area (UPA (8)) score as a proxy measure …

Objectives: To examine the association between underlying ill health, material deprivation
and primary care supply factors and hospital admission rates for potentially avoidable …

Aims To describe and analyse the trends in (and pattern of) hospitalisations for medical
conditions that could be avoided by adequate primary care. Methods Using public hospital …

Objectives: To quantify the extent of the variation in hospital admission rates between
general practices, and to investigate whether this variation can be explained by factors …

Avoidable hospitalisations: potential for primary and public health initiatives in Canterbury,
New Zealand Page 11 THE NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL JOURNAL Vol 119 No 1236 ISSN 1175 …

Background: Appropriate management of care–for example, avoiding unnecessary
attendances at, or admissions to, hospital emergency units when they could be handled in …

Background Researchers and policy makers have focussed on the development of
indicators to help monitor the success of regionalization, primary care reform and other …

Objective: To describe potentially avoidable hospitalisation in New Zealand, including
recent trends and variations between groups differentiated by age, gender, ethnicity and …