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Investment in primary care can prevent hospital admissions of ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Objective<\/jats:title>\n To measure the impact of ACSCs on acute hospital capacity in the Irish public system and identify specific care areas for enhanced primary care provision.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Design<\/jats:title>\n National Hospital In-patient Enquiry System data were used to calculate 2011\u20132016 standardised bed day rates for selected ACSC conditions. A prioritisation exercise was undertaken to identify the most significant contributors to bed days within our hospital system. Poisson regression was used to determine change over time using incidence rate ratios (IRR).<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n In 2016 ACSCs accounted for almost 20% of acute public hospital beds (n=871\u2009328\u2009bed days) with adults over 65 representing 69.1% (n=602\u2009392) of these. Vaccine preventable conditions represented 39.1% of ACSCs. Influenza and pneumonia were responsible for 99.8% of these, increasing by 8.2% (IRR: 1.02; 95%\u2009CI 1.02 to 1.03) from 2011 to 2016. Pyelonephritis represented 47.6% of acute ACSC bed days, increasing by 46.5% (IRR: 1.07; 95%\u2009CI 1.06 to 1.08) over the 5 years examined.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Prioritisation for targeted investment in integrated care programmes is enabled through analysis of ACSC\u2019s in terms of acute hospital bed days. This analysis demonstrates that primary care investment in integrated care programmes for respiratory ACSC\u2019s from prevention to rehabilitation at scale could assist with bed capacity in acute hospitals in Ireland. In adults 65 years and over, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, the current analysis supports targeting community based pulmonary rehabilitation including pneumococcal and influenza vaccination programmes in order to reduce the burden of infection and hospitalisations. 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