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Table 1 PPH standardized rates by 100,000 person-years, variability among Basic Health Zones and correlation between PPH standardized hospitalization ratios of the different conditions; Valencia Community, 2007-2009

From: Joint spatial modeling to identify shared patterns among chronic related potentially preventable hospitalizations

 

Summary data

Variability

Correlation (p-value) between standardized ratios

PPH

n

Rates

EQ5–95

EB

Diab.

COPD

CHF

Dehyd.

Angina

Asthma

Diabetes

1490

11.3

-

0.30

1.00

0.26 (<0.001)

0.16 (0.014)

-0.02 (0.805)

0.10 (0.107)

0.09 (0.159)

COPD

20357

155.0

6.12

0.26

 

1.00

0.51 (<0.001)

0.24 (<0.001)

0.34 (<0.001)

0.44 (<0.001)

CHF

11680

88.9

4.78

0.14

  

1.00

0.22 (0.001)

0.21 (0.001)

0.33 (<0.001)

Dehydration

512

3.9

-

0.73

   

1.00

0.23 (<0.001)

0.20 (0.002)

Angina

3141

23.9

34.24

0.61

    

1.00

0.22 (<0.001)

Asthma

2790

21.2

34.43

0.47

     

1.00

  1. PPH: Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations; BHZ: Basic Health Zones; COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease; CHF: Congestive Heart Failure. EQ: Extremal Quotient; EB: Empirical Bayes Statistics. EQ5–95 for Diabetes and Dehydration were not computable because BHZ with 0 cases.