Economic and financial crisis based on Troika’s intervention and potentially avoidable hospitalizations: an ecological study in Portugal
Abstract Background Hospitalisations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) cause harm to users and to health systems, as these events are potentially avoidable. In 2009, Portugal was hit by an economic and financial crisis and in 2011 it resorted to foreign assistance (“Memorandum of Under...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06475-4 |