What Lies Beyond Acute Care Data

Describing health service utilization of patients with heavy alcohol addiction using cross-continuum encounter data.

What Lies Beyond Acute Care Data

Describing health service utilization of patients with heavy alcohol addiction using cross-continuum encounter data.

This report demonstrate what disappears from the view of service utilization analysts when only Emergency and Acute Care data are mined from the EHR, a common practice in health services research. We study the cohort of 4,067 residents of Vancouver Island with severe alcohol addiction. Engagement with the cross-continuum terrain of services is aggraged over 10 years (2007 - 2017) and reported via categories of the Clinical Context Coding Scheme of the Vancouver Island Health Authority.

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Figure 1: Aggregate cohort engagement of service classes: acute (red) and community (grey)

Figure 1: Aggregate cohort engagement of service classes: acute (red) and community (grey)

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