 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health - 2002 - 98 pages
...illnesses that could have received effective outpatient treatment (Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions). Per 1,000 beneficiaries, these hospitalizations increase...for beneficiaries with five chronic conditions, and jumps again to 261 for people with 10 or more chronic conditions.3 These poor outcomes are likely a... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health - 2002 - 104 pages
...effective outpatient treatment (Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions). Per 1,000 beneficiaries, tnese hospitalizations increase from seven for people with...for beneficiaries with five chronic conditions, and jumps again to 261 for people with 10 or more chronic conditions.3 These poor outcomes are likely a... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Budget - 2004 - 368 pages
...with multiple chronic conditions experience unnecessary or avoidable hospitalizations for illnesses that could have received effective outpatient treatment....1999, the Institute of Medicine released a report concluding that two million medical errors occur in hospitals every year. Addressing the needs of chronically-ill... | |
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... there are adverse outcomes. For instance, we have found that as the number of chronic conditions increase, so too do the number of inappropriate hospitalizations for illnesses that could have received effective outpatient treatment (Ambulatory Care... 