Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Chittenden County, VT
Series ID:           DMPCRATE050007
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  42.0499999523163
2009-01-01  42.5899999141693
2010-01-01  42.1699999570847
2011-01-01  37.3519999999553
2012-01-01  44.0279999999329
2013-01-01  33.0689999996684
2014-01-01  28.2359999998007
2015-01-01  27.1839999998920