Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Berks County, PA (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE042011
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 2:11 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  60.0799999237061
2009-01-01  59.6599999666214
2010-01-01  58.8999999761581
2011-01-01  60.2779999999329
2012-01-01  55.7449999996461
2013-01-01  51.9409999996424
2014-01-01  46.4189999997616
2015-01-01  46.7449999996461