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    Rates of Preventable Hospitalizations (Age<18) for Selected Medical Conditions by County

    Metadata Updated: November 23, 2025

    The dataset currently contains hospitalization counts and rates, statewide and by county, for 4 conditions plus 3 composite measures. Hospitalizations for these conditions are potentially preventable through access to high-quality outpatient care. The conditions include: asthma (age 2-17), diabetes short-term complications (age 6-17), gastroenteritis (age 3 months-17 years), perforated appendix (retired, 2016), urinary tract infections (age 3 months-17 years), and low birth weight (<2500 grams; retired, 2016). The composite measures (age 6-17) include overall, acute conditions, and chronic conditions. The data provides a good starting point for assessing quality of health services in the community. The data does not measure hospital quality. Note: In 2015, HCAI only released the first three quarters of data due to a change in the reporting of diagnoses from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM codes, effective October 1, 2015. Due to the significant differences resulting from the code change, the ICD-9-CM data is distinguished from the ICD-10-CM data in the data file beginning in 2016.

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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 81bd263b-67b4-4585-bbc6-19df8187e206
    Data First Published 2017-06-16T22:25:18.460831
    Data Last Modified 2025-11-07T05:04:23.665177
    Category Health and Human Services
    Public Access Level public
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Object Id 5a78b151-3fbf-4763-8865-9c45ff64278f
    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 a6c45217bb5a338bdf8d8be67cbb1d5539544f7795202f00969b33c6344d8d35
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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