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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2014 Jun 4;36(5):460–465. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2014.05.020

Table 2.

Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (H-ACSC) of Medicare Beneficiaries by Depression Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey 2002-2009

Over-all Sample
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