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Visualising linked health data to explore health events around preventable hospitalisations in NSW Australia.

Michael O FalsterLouisa R JormAlastair H Leyland
Published in: BMJ open (2016)
We did not find evidence of limited use of primary care services in the lead-up to a preventable hospitalisation, rather people with preventable hospitalisations tended to have high levels of engagement with multiple elements of the healthcare system. As such, preventable hospitalisations might be better used as a tool for identifying sicker patients for managed care programmes. Visualising longitudinal health data was found to be a powerful strategy for uncovering patterns of health service use, and such visualisations have potential to be more widely adopted in health services research.
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