Title:               Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Wetzel County, WV
Series ID:           DMPCRATE054103
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  98.6899998188019
2009-01-01  94.3799998760223
2010-01-01  93.4299998283386
2011-01-01 111.1619999995460
2012-01-01 104.1989999990910
2013-01-01  71.2859999993816
2014-01-01  65.9349999995902
2015-01-01  55.4779999996535