Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Chatham County, NC
Series ID:           DMPCRATE037037
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  59.8299999237061
2009-01-01  54.6399999856949
2010-01-01  54.4399999380112
2011-01-01  44.8499999996275
2012-01-01  39.0609999997541
2013-01-01  34.2999999998137
2014-01-01  32.2500000000000
2015-01-01  31.1529999999329