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Potentially preventable hospitalizations per 100,000 adults

Measure Overview


IMPORTANT NOTE: This measure has been retired. SHADAC is no longer updating this measure. 

In order to maintain State Health Compare (SHC) as a relevant and current resource for data users, SHADAC regularly evaluates SHC measures to ensure they inform current health care and health policy discussions. We also want to be able to update measures consistently with recent data. As a part of this process, SHADAC retires existing measures if they can no longer be updated, are no longer relevant, are little used by SHC users, or fall outside of SHADAC’s areas of focus. 

You can still access this measure’s data & visualizations, but it will not be updated moving forward. If you’d like to explore active related measures, check out some of the following:

Reducing potentially preventable hospitalizations, i.e., hospital admissions for certain acute illnesses or chronic conditions that might not have required hospitalization if they had been managed through better access to and utilization of outpatient primary care in clinical settings or doctor’s offices, is a key mechanism by which health care costs can be reduced.

The national and state-level data on the cost of potentially preventable hospitalizations offered by State Health Compare are available for a number of years and by chronic/acute conditions using data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample. State specific results were calculated using the State Inpatient Databases. Users should note that a break in data series occurred in 2016 due to a switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes.

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