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    Data Brief: Avoidable Emergency Department Visits Vary Widely Across California

    Metadata Updated: November 23, 2025

    The data includes a broader range of geographic units of analysis than have previously been made available in HPD public reports, in addition to other measures.

    • Geography: County, Covered California Region, Public Health Region, California Assembly District, California Senate District, California Congressional District
    • Demographics: Age Band, Sex
    • Payer Type: Commercial, Medi-Cal, Medicare
    • Measures: Prevalence of 23 chronic conditions, total emergency department (ED) visits, avoidable ED visits

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date November 23, 2025
    Publisher Department of Health Care Access and Information
    Maintainer
    Identifier 5d890ea2-84da-40b7-8550-726984336554
    Data First Published 2025-06-30T17:45:39.433791
    Data Last Modified 2025-11-07T00:11:29.963331
    Category Health and Human Services
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id ff0c42b6-c19e-46b5-80e0-d022f784162a
    Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
    Harvest Source Title State of California
    License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 1336bcec6d55cbfd1609a5a9b17c7bfc6bc73f2f043b6497aa3e0229b141a994
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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