Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Dukes County, MA (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE025007
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  58.7199999094009
2009-01-01  61.6799999475479
2010-01-01  63.1599999666214
2011-01-01  63.6749999998137
2012-01-01  47.7309999996796
2013-01-01  46.7569999997504
2014-01-01  45.2409999999218
2015-01-01  56.1899999999441