Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Kings County, CA
Series ID:           DMPCRATE006031
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  71.8599998950958
2009-01-01  68.1099998950958
2010-01-01  79.1399998664856
2011-01-01  76.3759999992326
2012-01-01  62.5949999997392
2013-01-01  63.0929999998771
2014-01-01  49.2169999997132
2015-01-01  43.5519999996759