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Association between continuity of care in general practice and hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions: cross sectional study of routinely collected, person level data
BMJ 2017; 356 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j84 (Published 01 February 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;356:j84
Data supplement
Data supplement
Files in this Data Supplement:
- Appendix 1 - Ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) conditions and related ICD-10 codes, adapted from Bardsley et al
- Appendix 2 - Descriptive statistics, for subgroups of patients defined by quintiles of the number of GP contacts over two years
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