Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Elk County, KS
Series ID:           DMPCRATE020049
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   86.6099998950958
2009-01-01   92.5999999046326
2010-01-01   66.4799997806549
2011-01-01  112.6169999996200
2012-01-01   78.4559999993071
2013-01-01   78.9329999992624
2014-01-01   60.0769999995828
2015-01-01  -49.8509999997914