Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Alameda County, CA (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE006001
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 2:12 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  52.2399998903275
2009-01-01  48.7799999713898
2010-01-01  51.8599998950958
2011-01-01  47.8969999998808
2012-01-01  42.0369999995455
2013-01-01  37.8609999995679
2014-01-01  33.1289999997243
2015-01-01  34.6229999996722