Details

Subjects:

Hospital utilization -- United States.
United States -- Statistics, Medical.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This survey, which is part a continuing sample of hospital discharge records, supplies medical and demographic information used to calculate statistics on hospital utilization. The data collection consists of data abstracted from the face sheets of the medical records for sampled inpatients discharged from a national sample of nonfederal short-stay hospitals. The variables include information on the patient's demographic characteristics (sex, age, date of birth, race, marital status), dates of admission and discharge, status at discharge, diagnoses, procedures performed, source of payment, and hospital characteristics, such as bedsize, ownership, and region of the country.

Contents:

Part 1: Data File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

OCLC:

61161777

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.