Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Wilcox County, AL
Series ID:           DMPCRATE001131
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 2:13 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  78.0599999427795
2009-01-01  69.7199997901917
2010-01-01  71.2799999713898
2011-01-01  65.0269999997690
2012-01-01  64.5659999996424
2013-01-01  42.7539999997243
2014-01-01  53.5529999998398
2015-01-01  54.6189999999478