As a result, the population level indicator of admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) has been used as a proxy measure for potentially preventable admission.
Without the neat indicator of rank, admissions officers may have to look closer at applicants -- their transcripts, talents, activities, passion for education and mitigating factors like a death in the family.
We will measure child characteristics at baseline including age, number of previous hospitalizations, and previous emotional and behavioral characteristics (using the BASC-2 as an indicator of pre-admission behavior), as well as distress 6 weeks post-discharge (CCIIS [ 24, 57] and PHBQ [ 55, 56]).
All 24 women had at least one indicator of severity on admission to ICU that included BP ≥ 160/110 mmHg (n = 13), elevated liver enzymes (n = 13), low platelet count (n = 12), oliguria (n = 11), headaches (n = 8), epigastric pain (n = 7), seizures (n = 6), renal insufficiency (n = 2) and hemolysis (n = 2).
Volunteer work is seen as one of the classic indicators of college admissions - something to tick off to gain admission to show you are a good samaritan.
There's also some extensive data on each school's admissions history, with information on the most predictive indicators for admission and plots of GPA vs standardized test scores.
To control for severity of illness, the total number of comorbidities from the Present of Admission indicator was summed for each patient.
Moreover for the purposes of assessing the delivery of hospital care and thereby gauging whether hospital stays have changed over the years (whatever the type of health care service involved), we calculated the mean days of admission indicator, which dropped significantly over the course of our observation period (a decade).
It may also be seen as a weakness of the existing tools that they did not consistently include facility-level characteristics as an indicator of the appropriateness of admissions.
However, this study has provided some useful indicators that this type of admission may be worthy of further research.
