Regional variation of potentially avoidable hospitalisations in Switzerland: an observational study

Abstract Background Primary health care is subject to regional variation, which may be due to unequal and inefficient distribution of services. One key measure of such variation are potentially avoidable hospitalisations, i.e., hospitalisations for conditions that could have been dealt with in situ...

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Main Authors: Niklaus Gygli, Franziska Zúñiga, Michael Simon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-08-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06876-5