Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Caroline County, MD
Series ID:           DMPCRATE024011
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  78.6299998760223
2009-01-01  83.1599998474121
2010-01-01  88.8099999427795
2011-01-01  78.2069999994710
2012-01-01  75.6139999991283
2013-01-01  83.8979999991134
2014-01-01  75.0219999998808
2015-01-01  74.7569999992847