Table 3.
Authors conclusions on variation, admission rates
| Paper ID | Author Conclusions |
|---|---|
| Significant Variation | |
| Australia | |
| Ansari 2005 | “There was a wide variation (almost fivefold) in admission rates” |
| Tennant 2000 | “[8 of 32 regions] had significantly less episodes of hospitalization…than the State average” |
| Canada | |
| Crighton 2007 | “Marked differences in rates between counties…large variability in county rates” |
| Crighton 2008 | “The heterogeneity in…hospitalization rates and significant spatial clustering” |
| New Zealand | |
| Barnett 2010 | “Substantial variation in admission rates” |
| Dharmalingam 2004 | “Substantial geographical variation in the level of avoidable hospitalisation” |
| Spain | |
| Magan 2008 | “Considerable variability in these rates” |
| UK | |
| Giuffrida 1999 | “Clear variation…in crude admission rates” |
| Starr 1996 | “There was considerable variation…between districts” |
| US | |
| Adams 1993 | “There was considerable geographic variation” |
| Casper 2010 | “Magnitude of geographic disparity was substantial between the high- and low-rate counties” |
| Chen 2011 | “Rates in 1998 and 2008 varied significantly by state” |
| Gorton 2006 | “Rates vary widely” |
| Holt 2011 | “Substantial geographic variations in COPD hospitalization risk among states and HSAs” |
| Laditka 1999 | “Significant variation in preventable hospitalization” |
| Morris 1994 | “The geographic distribution in hospital admission rates is unequivocally heterogeneous” |
| Variation Exists | |
| Canada | |
| Curtis 2002 | “Differences observed for DKA are clinically important” |
| Jin 2003 | “The incidence of…hospitalization varies” |
| To 1996 | “Variation among the counties…was moderately large” |
| New Zealand | |
| Bandaranayake 2011 | “We observed a heterogeneous distribution” |
| US | |
| Maliszewski 2011 | “Hospitalization rates were dependent upon neighbouring county hospitalization rates” |
| Insignificant Variation | |
| UK | |
| Downing 2007 | “Generally the variances were small meaning there was little unexplained variation” |
| US | |
| Lanska 1994 | “Hospitalization rates show relatively little small-scale variation” |
| No Conclusion | |
| New Zealand | |
| Ellison-Loschmann 2004 | No conclusions |
| US | |
| Ogunniyi 2012 | No conclusions |