 potentially preventable hospitalisations pph  potentially preventable hospitalisations pph 35 admin mon 10142019 1827 number of hospital admissions that could be prevented by means of preventative health interventions and or early detecion and disease management prior to hospital admission the indicator provides a measure to evaluate health care delivery effectiveness additional quantitative hospital admission  two types of admissions can be differentiated 1 emergent admission happens when a patient is subsequently admitted to the hospital and 2 elective admissions happens when a a patient is admitted on a specific day disease management  a set of healthcare interventions and communications to manage a specific disease hospital record information systems health surveys calculate the percentage of potentially preventable hospitalisations pph by dividing hospital admissions number of visits and people admitted relative to the patient diagnoses codes in hospital admissions data pph is reported using the broad categories of chronic acute and vaccine preventable conditions and using agestandardized hospitalisation rates the number of potentially preventable hospitalisations per 1  or 100  population or the number of hospital bed days per patients admitted for a potentially preventable hospitalization percentage with numerator and denominator outcome percentage annually monthly annually it might be difficult to identify all potentially preventable hospitalisations some hospitalisations may not be avoidable the term preventable might be understood at different levels for different stakeholders yes extract from khanna et al 2019 p 8 available at  https wwwnaturecom articles s4159801941383y hospitalization 