Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in El Paso County, CO
Series ID:           DMPCRATE008041
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  50.7999999523163
2009-01-01  46.2999999523163
2010-01-01  46.0299999713898
2011-01-01  42.5089999996126
2012-01-01  36.9959999998100
2013-01-01  30.9289999997709
2014-01-01  31.8889999999665
2015-01-01  32.5139999999665