Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Metcalfe County, KY (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE021169
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
2008-01-01 128.7599997520450
2009-01-01 103.5199999809270
2010-01-01 129.4499998092650
2011-01-01  90.6899999994785
2012-01-01  91.7189999995753
2013-01-01  99.7249999996275
2014-01-01  88.8419999992475
2015-01-01  94.5209999997169