Predicting and preventing avoidable hospital admissions: a review
The strongest risk factors for avoidable hospital admission are age and
deprivation but ethnicity, distance to hospital, rurality, lifestyle and meteorological
factors are also important, as well as access to primary care. There is still
considerable uncertainty around which admissions are avoidable. In terms of
services to reduce admissions there is evidence of effectiveness for education, selfmanagement,
exercise and rehabilitation, and telemedicine in certain patient