Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations Among Adults With Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: Assessment of Prevention Quality Indicators

Compared to the general population, adults with chronic SCI experience more hospitalizations that could have been prevented with high-quality and routine ambulatory care. There is a need to better monitor and treat these ambulatory care sensitive conditions, to advance our understanding of the access to and receipt of quality healthcare, and to develop and implement targeted services to promote health and prevent hospitalizations.