Assessing health services delivery performance with hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions
This document was published by the WHO Regional Office for Europe and explores means of measuring health system delivery performance. It sets out to review evidence related to ambulatory care sensitive condition hospitalizations (ACSHs) as a proxy indicator of health services delivery (HSD) performance. Based on ACSHs, this review identifies specific vantage points for HSD improvements. Explored concepts and evidence is further operationalized in a guide for country studies on ACSCs.
ACSCs are an example of acute, chronic, or vaccine-preventable conditions that can serve as markers for assessing HSD performance. Examples of ACSCs include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, asthma and angina, and can be described as those conditions where it is possible, to a large extent, to prevent acute exacerbations and reduce the need for hospitalizations through strong primary health care-based services delivery.
This work has set out to review the different approaches to measuring ACSCs set in ...