Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Penobscot County, ME
Series ID:           DMPCRATE023019
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  81.3399999141693
2009-01-01  75.0999999046326
2010-01-01  77.7799999713898
2011-01-01  84.3709999993443
2012-01-01  76.3029999993742
2013-01-01  71.5659999996424
2014-01-01  63.3539999998175
2015-01-01  66.4439999992028