Number of potentially preventable hospitalisations, divided into three groups and total:
- vaccine-preventable (e.g. tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella).
- acute conditions (e.g. ear, nose and throat infections, perforated/bleeding ulcer, pelvic inflammatory disease) (excluding dehydration and gastroenteritis).
- chronic conditions (e.g. diabetes (principal diagnoses only), asthma, angina, hypertension, congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
- all potentially preventable hospitalisations.