Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Scott County, IA
Series ID:           DMPCRATE019163
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  73.0399999618530
2009-01-01  76.3899998664856
2010-01-01  71.9199998378754
2011-01-01  68.0169999999925
2012-01-01  58.1939999996684
2013-01-01  56.5199999995530
2014-01-01  52.8929999996908
2015-01-01  56.4979999996722