Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Lincoln County, WA
Series ID:           DMPCRATE053043
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  74.2099997997284
2009-01-01  66.9199998378754
2010-01-01  79.8699998855591
2011-01-01  83.9529999997467
2012-01-01  64.2389999991283
2013-01-01  65.5609999997541
2014-01-01  45.0419999998994
2015-01-01  46.0029999995604