Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Lancaster County, PA (DISCONTINUED)
Series ID:           DMPCRATE042071
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  50.5000000000000
2009-01-01  53.2500000000000
2010-01-01  48.4199999570847
2011-01-01  49.6519999997690
2012-01-01  45.8049999997020
2013-01-01  42.0029999995604
2014-01-01  36.1479999995790
2015-01-01  34.1099999998696