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PROFESSIONAL ISSUESHow to prevent visits to the EDQuick View. Nov. 12, 2007.
Better ambulatory care, access and patient management could avert as many as 4.4 million hospital stays a year. Hospital costs for potentially preventable conditions, such as diabetes complications and congestive heart failure, totaled nearly $29 billion in 2004. There were 38.7 million hospitalizations overall in 2004, but admissions for a number of preventable conditions have gone down since 1997.
Source: "Trends in Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations Among Adults and Children, 1997-2004, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Statistical Brief #36," Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, August Copyright 2007 American Medical Association. All rights reserved.
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