Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Benton County, IA (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE019011
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  58.7799999713898
2009-01-01  65.6199998855591
2010-01-01  61.2199999094009
2011-01-01  63.4439999996684
2012-01-01  71.9069999996573
2013-01-01  53.5249999999069
2014-01-01  48.7879999997094
2015-01-01  43.6250000000000