Source: Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare  

Release: Preventable Hospital Admissions  

Units:  Rate, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Annual

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).