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Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Kershaw County, SC (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE045055
Source:              Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare
Release:             Preventable Hospital Admissions (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment: Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency:           Annual
Units:               Rate
Date Range:          2008-01-01 to 2015-01-01
Last Updated:        2018-07-03 2:11 PM CDT
Notes:               The Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare calculates preventable hospital
                     admissions by considering the discharges for ambulatory care-sensitive
                     conditions from short-stay acute care hospitals per 1,000 medicare
                     enrollees. This is measured as a 5-year average and is adjusted for
                     age, sex, and race.
                     
                     For more information, see Regional and Racial Variation in Primary
                     Care and the Quality of Care among Medicare Beneficiaries (2010)
                     (https://www.dartmouthatlas.org/downloads/reports/Primary_care_report_090910.pdf).

DATE                   VALUE
2008-01-01  87.4799997806549
2009-01-01  83.2899999618530
2010-01-01  74.3699998855591
2011-01-01  75.9929999997839
2012-01-01  68.2409999994561
2013-01-01  60.7649999996647
2014-01-01  50.5449999999255
2015-01-01  51.9059999999590