New data about clinical care among Medicare beneficiaries are available for 2014 (replacing data for 2012). Affected indicators: Clinical Care Breast Cancer Screening (Mammogram) Diabetes Management (Hemoglobin A1c Test) Preventable Hospital Events
We identified an error in the original source data affecting report areas including Washington, DC. In the original source data, when reported as a county level value, the chlamydia incidence rate for Washingtonm, DC is recorded as 0.30. When reported … Continued
Indicators displaying the percentage of population with low food access and population living in food deserts have been updated. The updated data were released in January 2017 and reflect conditions on the ground in 2015, replacing previous indicator data reflecting … Continued
For these four service areas, this error did not cause significant deviations from the state benchmarks. Details about the indicator value changes are available in the table below. Service Area Old Value Correct Value State Value Benchmark Direction Change Baltimore … Continued
Details about the indicator value changes are available in the table below. Service Area Old Value Correct Value State Value Benchmark Direction Change Baltimore 1833.98 2414.26 641.05 FALSE Georgia 576.62 591.09 512.74 FALSE Northern VA 343.65 300.93 314.45 TRUE Suburban … Continued
An error was identified in the query used to generate prevalence estimates for select chronic conditions among Medicare patients. This issue affected only those multi-county report areas which included one or more counties with “no data”. These counties area: Aleutians … Continued
An error was identified in which the numerator (number of primary care physicians) and denominator (total population) values for custom geographic areas were reported as a multi-year aggregate rather than for a single year. Numerator and denominator values have been … Continued
An error was identified in the query used to generate the figure for national high school graduation rates. For this dataset, the national figure is generated by summing the county-level components within the original dataset. Some of the underlying geographies … Continued
New data about chronic conditions among the Medicare population are available for 2015 (replacing data for 2014). Time series data are now available for years 2010 through 2015. Affected indicators: Health Outcomes Depression (Medicare Population) Diabetes (Medicare Population) Heart Disease … Continued
New data on the number of percentage of food insecure population are available from Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap 2017.