Title |
Rate of Preventable Hospital Admissions (5-year estimate) in Smyth County, VA (DISCONTINUED) |
Series ID |
DMPCRATE051173 |
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). |