Table 2.
Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (H-ACSC) of Medicare Beneficiaries by Depression Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey 2002-2009
Over-all Sample | |||||||
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ALL | Depression | No Depression | |||||
N=13,486 | N=1,303 | N=12,183 | |||||
N | Wt% | N | Wt% | N | Wt% | Sig | |
Any H-ACSC | 1,200 | 8.2 | 175 | 13.6 | 1,025 | 7.7 | *** |
Any Acute Condition Related H-ACSC | 572 | 3.8 | 81 | 6.0 | 491 | 3.6 | *** |
Any Chronic Disease Related H-ACSC | 754 | 5.2 | 120 | 9.5 | 634 | 4.8 | *** |
Specific Disease Related H-ACSC | |||||||
Diabetes | 105 | 0.7 | Not Reported ¥ | ||||
Cardio-vascular Diseases | 390 | 2.7 | 60 | 4.8 | 330 | 2.4 | *** |
Respiratory Diseases | 239 | 1.7 | 44 | 3.5 | 195 | 1.5 | *** |
Infectious Conditions | 441 | 3.0 | 57 | 4.3 | 384 | 2.9 | ** |
Note: Based on a sample of 13,486 community dwelling Medicare beneficiaries who were followed for 3 years, were first interviewed in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 or 2007, enrolled in fee-for-service program and had at least one chronic physical condition (arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease (myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, and other heart conditions), hypertension, respiratory diseases (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - COPD, and asthma), and osteoporosis). H-ACSC included hospitalizations for: diabetes short-term complications, diabetes long-term complications, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, congestive heart failure, dehydration, bacterial pneumonia, urinary infections, angina without a procedure, uncontrolled diabetes, adult asthma and lower extremity amputations among patients with diabetes.
Asterisks represent statistical significance based on chi-square statistics.
p≤0.001
0.001< p ≤ 0.01
0.01< p ≤ 0.05
Results are unstable due to low sample size and relative standard error > 30. Results not reported Wt%: Weighted percentage; Sig: significance; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease