National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) Public Use Data Diskette, Data Access System and All-Listed Diagnoses, 1986 and 1987 Documentation

摘要

The data diskettes and documentation provide an easy one-step automated access to a wide range of statistics on hospitalization produced by the survey. The data diskettes are a complete package including software for accessing the database files, for computing rates of selected populations and for creating smaller files for use with other software packages. The database files on these diskettes were developed by downloading specifically created text files similar to the detailed tables shown in Vital and Health Statistics, Series 13. 'Detailed Diagnoses and Procedures for Patients Discharged from Short-Stay Hospitals, United States.' The data diskettes are intended as an information source for researchers and others who need detailed data aggregated by ICD-9-CM/DRG Codes, but do not need the detail provided by the entire data tape. The NHDS consists of data abstracted from the face sheets of the medical records for sampled inpatients discharged from a national sample of non-Federal short-stay hospitals and are weighted to produce national and regional estimates. Approximately 500 hospitals and 190,000 records are included in the sample each year.