National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) Public-Use Data Diskette and Data Access System Software, 1986 Documentation

摘要

The data diskettes and documentation provide an easy one-step access to a wide range of statistics on hospitalization. It is a complete package including software for accessing the database files and for computing rates of selected populations. Data for 1986 are shown by age and sex of the patient and geographic region of the hospital, for number of discharges and patient days of care, for conditions diagnosed, and surgical and non-surgical procedures performed by ICD-9-CM codes and by DRG. The data diskettes are intended as an information source for researchers and others who need data for detailed diagnostic, procedure, and DRG categories, but do not need the detail provided by the entire data tape. The survey 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.