FIGURE 1b.

Age and sex standardized rates of potentially avoidable hospital use in the year following diagnosis among community-dwelling adults 65 years or older with a new diagnosis of dementia in Quebec, Canada, from 2000–2015.

The rate of Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSC) hospitalizations, and ALC hospitalizations were measured in the subset of persons with at least one hospital admission during the study period. 30-day readmission was measured in the subset of persons with at least 1 hospital discharge during the study period. The length of ALC stay was computed as the total number of ALC hospital days during the follow-up period in persons with at least one ALC hospitalization. Rates are reported as per 1 person years for length of ALC stay. The remaining indicators are per 100 person years. Canadian census population of 2011 was used as the reference population for standardization. The 2014–2015 cohort is incomplete (See Appendix A).

ACSC: Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions; ALC: Alternate level of care