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    Dept. of State Health Services
    Center for Health Statistics, MC 1898
    PO Box 149347
    Austin, Texas 78714-9347

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    Austin, TX 78756

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Preventable Hospitalizations 2013

Center for Health Statistics
Texas Health Care Information Collection

This report offers insight into a critical area of health care quality—hospitalizations that may be preventable with adequate preventive care. These hospital admissions for conditions often referred to as ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs), can potentially be reduced with the timely and effective use of primary care. This report analyzes the 2013 Texas Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data for ACSCs and presents information that focuses on assessing the effectiveness of this care.

Hospitalizations may be prevented when clinicians diagnose, educate and treat patients in a timely and effective manner in outpatient settings, and when patients actively participate in their care and engage in healthy lifestyle behaviors. Higher rates of possibly preventable hospitalizations may identify areas where improvements can potentially be made in the quality of the health care system.

Adult population (age 18 and older)

  1. Perforated Appendix (PQI02)
  2. Uncontrolled Diabetes (PQI14)
  3. Lower-Extremity Amputation Among Patients With Diabetes (PQI16)

Pediatric population (under age 18)

  1. Low Birth Weight (PDI09)
  2. Pediatric Asthma (PDI14)
  3. Pediatric Diabetes Short-Term Complications (PDI15)
  4. Pediatric Gastroenteritis (PDI16)
  5. Pediatric Perforated Appendix (PDI17)
  6. Pediatric Urinary Tract Infection (PDI18)

Questions or comments on these reports? Please contact THCIC here.

Preventable Hospitalizations 2014
Preventable Hospitalizations 2011
Preventable Hospitalizations 2008

The below listed Preventable Hospitalizations are available here.

  1. Bacterial Pneumonia;
  2. Dehydration;
  3. Urinary Tract Infection;
  4. Angina (without procedures);
  5. Congestive Heart Failure;
  6. Hypertension (high blood pressure);
  7. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or Asthma in Older Adults;
  8. Diabetes Short-Term Complications; and
  9. Diabetes Long-Term Complications

Questions or comments on these reports? Please contact the Potentially Preventable Hospitalization here.
Last updated February 5, 2016