Admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions on rural islands and their association with patient experience: a multicentred prospective cohort study.
Makoto KanekoTakuya AokiMasafumi FunatoKeita YamashiroKaku KurodaMoe KurodaYusuke SaishojiTatsuya SakaiSyo YonahaKazuhisa MotomuraMachiko InouePublished in: BMJ open (2019)
Physicians serving rural areas need to stress the importance of preventive interventions for heart failure, pneumonia and influenza to reduce the number of admissions for ACSCs. Contrary to previous studies, our findings might be explained by close patient-doctor relationships on the rural islands.