Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Cape Girardeau County, MO
Series ID:           DMPCRATE029031
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  64.7099997997284
2009-01-01  62.5699999332428
2010-01-01  56.6199998855591
2011-01-01  59.4179999995977
2012-01-01  51.6859999997541
2013-01-01  49.1099999998696
2014-01-01  47.7509999996983
2015-01-01  47.6459999997169