Assessing health services delivery performance with hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (2016)

This document sets out to review evidence related to ambulatory care sensitive condition hospitalizations (ACSHs) as a proxy indicator of health services delivery (HSD) performance. 

Based on ACSHs, this review identifies specific vantage points for HSD improvements. Explored concepts and evidence is further operationalized in a guide for country studies on ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs).