Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Los Angeles County, CA
Series ID:           DMPCRATE006037
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  64.0000000000000
2009-01-01  61.8599998950958
2010-01-01  60.1999999284744
2011-01-01  59.4259999999776
2012-01-01  54.4389999997802
2013-01-01  49.0339999999851
2014-01-01  42.1739999996498
2015-01-01  41.6889999997802