Why one third of preventable hospitalisations are not actually preventable
AusDoc takes a look at the rubbery statistic used by policy wonks as a measure of primary care failure
There is one statistic frequently quoted as a measure of the success or failure of general practice care.
It’s the number of preventable hospital admissions: officially, those admissions that could have been avoided with the “provision of appropriate individualised preventative health interventions and early disease management”.
