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Prevention Quality Indicators (risk-adjusted rate per 1,000 adults) Rate
Kentucky Chronic 13
Acute 9
Overall 23

About the Indicator: Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) are a set of measure that can be used to identify "ambulatory care sensitive conditions," which are conditions for which good outpatient care can potentially prevent the need for hospitalization, complications or more severe disease.  The Acute PQI is a composite representing admissions for dehydration, bacterial pneumonia, and urinary tract infections.  The Chronic PQI is a composite representing admissions for diabetes short-term complications, diabetes long-term complications, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, hypertension, congestive heart failure, angina admissions without a procedure,  uncontrolled diabetes, adult asthma, and lower-extremity amputation among patients with diabetes.  The Overall PQI is a composite representing all of the preceding acute and chronic indicators.

Data Source: Office of Health Policy, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services

Motor Vehicle Deaths (per 100,000,000 miles driven) Rate
Kentucky 2.1
USA 1.5

Data Source: The Health of Kentucky: A County Assessment (Traffic Collisions in Kentucky)

Tooth Loss (percent adults missing 6 or more teeth) Percent
Adair County Group 36%
County 32%

About the Indicator: The percentage of adults with six or more permanent teeth removed because of tooth decay or gum disease.

Data Source: BRFSS

Data Sources:

Office of Health Policy, Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services

The Health of Kentucky: A County Assessment (Traffic Collisions in Kentucky)

Description: Kentucky Institute of Medicine. The Health of Kentucky: A County Assessment. Lexington, KY; 2007.  Authors' analysis of data from Kentucky State Police Traffic Collisions in Kentucky annual reports (2000-2004).

BRFSS

Description: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Kentucky Department for Public Health. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Data as analyzed at the county level by the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Control Program and College of Public Health.

Data for counties with fewer than 50 respondents have been suppressed. 

County groups were developed by researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Control Program and College of Public Health under the direction of the Kentucky Department for Public Health.  The thirty-nine county groups were developed through a methodology which considered socioeconomic, demographic, and health-related statistics at the county level, together with geographical proximity and number of BRFSS respondents, to cluster counties based on similar characteristics.  County groups are expected to provide more stable rates and reliable estimates for small areas in Kentucky.