Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Des Moines County, IA (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE019057
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  57.3999999761581
2009-01-01  51.0999999046326
2010-01-01  62.1299999952316
2011-01-01  56.6899999999441
2012-01-01  56.8139999997802
2013-01-01  57.2089999997988
2014-01-01  48.7509999996983
2015-01-01  52.7109999996610