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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/stats/MaskedStats_NRD_2015_Hospital.PDF
January 01, 2015 - Frequency Distribution for HOSP_URCAT4
HOSP_URCAT4 Frequency
Percent
of Total
1: Large metropolitan areas … 833 35.19%
2: Small metropolitan areas 688 29.07%
3: Micropolitan areas 350 14.79%
4: Not metropolitan
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/stats/MaskedStats_NRD_2017_Hospital.PDF
January 01, 2017 - Frequency Distribution for HOSP_URCAT4
HOSP_URCAT4 Frequency
Percent
of Total
1: Large metropolitan areas … 875 35.66%
2: Small metropolitan areas 697 28.40%
3: Micropolitan areas 368 15.00%
4: Not metropolitan
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/stats/NRD_2011_MaskedStats_Hospital_V2.PDF
January 01, 2011 - Frequency Distribution for HOSP_URCAT4
HOSP_URCAT4 Frequency
Percent
of Total
1: Large metropolitan areas … 676 37.47%
2: Small metropolitan areas 499 27.66%
3: Micropolitan areas 277 15.35%
4: Not metropolitan
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/stats/NRD_2010_MaskedStats_Hospital_V2.PDF
January 01, 2010 - Frequency Distribution for HOSP_URCAT4
HOSP_URCAT4 Frequency
Percent
of Total
1: Large metropolitan areas … 674 37.26%
2: Small metropolitan areas 498 27.53%
3: Micropolitan areas 279 15.42%
4: Not metropolitan
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/CaseStudy_QDRanalysis04072017.pdf
April 07, 2017 - Quality and Disparities Report (QDR) measures and tracks trends in quality
and disparities in seven key areas
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports//methods/2014-02.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Location
Census
ERS
Census
ERS Census
ERS WWAMI RHRC
Health
Professionals
Shortage Areas … Nielsen
uses intercensal methods to estimate household and demographic statistics for geographic
areas … classifies U.S. counties by size of the largest city
and nearness to metropolitan and micropolitan areas … On-going
Data System Home Page:
http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/
Health Professional Shortage Areas … The
ten topical areas include: access to care, cost and affordability, coverage, health
information
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2014-02.pdf
January 01, 2014 - Location
Census
ERS
Census
ERS Census
ERS WWAMI RHRC
Health
Professionals
Shortage Areas … Nielsen
uses intercensal methods to estimate household and demographic statistics for geographic
areas … classifies U.S. counties by size of the largest city
and nearness to metropolitan and micropolitan areas … On-going
Data System Home Page:
http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/
Health Professional Shortage Areas … The
ten topical areas include: access to care, cost and affordability, coverage, health
information
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2013_01.pdf
January 01, 2013 - Location
Census
ERS
Census
ERS Census
ERS WWAMI RHRC
Health
Professionals
Shortage Areas … Nielsen
uses intra-census methods to estimate household and demographic statistics for geographic
areas … classifies U.S. counties by size of the largest city
and nearness to metropolitan and micropolitan areas … On-going
Data System Home Page:
http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/
Health Professional Shortage Areas … The
ten topical areas include: access to care, cost and affordability, coverage, health
information
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb84.pdf
January 01, 2010 - About
half of MVA-related visits were made by people residing in large metro areas, one-third in small … metro areas and the remaining in non-metro areas. … Non-MVA-related visits had a slightly lower
percentage of patients from large metro areas and a slightly … higher percentage of people from
non-metro areas.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/ccr/ed-ccr/ED_CCR_User_Guide_External_2012-2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - adjustment factor (GAF), which represents the capital cost adjustment index for Core-Based
Statistical Areas … All rural areas in each State are combined for a single wage index.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/ccr/ed-ccr/ED_CCR_User_Guide_External_2012-2022.pdf
January 01, 2022 - adjustment factor (GAF), which represents the capital cost adjustment index for Core-Based
Statistical Areas … All rural areas in each State are combined for a single wage index.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/nisoverview.jsp
July 01, 2025 - About the NIS
NIS Data Elements
NIS File Structure
NIS Areas of Research and HCUP Publications … for those analyses that require a census of discharges from individual
hospitals, local market areas … measures
AHRQ software tools (not available for 2016-2017)
Return to Contents
NIS Areas
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb193-Neonatal-Maternal-Hospitalizations-Substance-Use.pdf
November 01, 2014 - substance use were less likely than other neonatal
stays to be for neonates from large metropolitan areas … in communities with a lower median household income and less likely
to occur in large metropolitan areas … , maternal stays related to substance
use were less likely to be for women from large metropolitan areas … with 1 million or more residents
• Small Metropolitan: Metropolitan areas with fewer than 1 million … residents
• Micropolitan: Micropolitan areas adjacent and nonadjacent to metropolitan areas
• Rural
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb121.pdf
September 01, 2011 - Among COPD patients
residing in the lowest income
areas, the readmission rate was
22 percent higher … than among
patients from the highest income
areas (7.8 percent compared to
6.4 percent) … mean area wage index weighted by bed size.
4
Among COPD patients residing in the lowest income areas … readmission principally for COPD—about 22 percent higher than among patients from the
highest income areas
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb286-ED-Frequent-Conditions-2018.pdf
January 01, 2018 - females, those aged 65 years and older, individuals
residing in the lowest income communities or rural areas … The rate of ED visits was higher in rural areas than in large metropolitan areas (534 vs. 403 per 1,000 … proportion of ED visits among
individuals who were older and who resided in higher income or metropolitan areas … communities vs. 12.7 percent for the lowest income communities)
Residents in metropolitan versus rural areas … (14.8 percent for large metropolitan areas vs.
11.2 percent for rural areas)
Hospitals located
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/tech_assist/centdist/StatementIntendedUse.jsp
February 01, 2024 - Aggregating geographic areas to avoid identifying establishments
(each geographic area must
-
hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/ccr/ed-ccr/ED_CCR_User_Guide_External_2012-2020.pdf
January 01, 2020 - adjustment factor (GAF), which represents the capital cost adjustment index for Core-Based
Statistical Areas … All rural areas in each State are combined for a single wage index.
-
hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/ccr/ed-ccr/ED-CCR-User-Guide_Public_FINAL.pdf
October 01, 2022 - adjustment factor (GAF), which represents the capital cost adjustment index for Core-Based
Statistical Areas … All rural areas in each State are combined for a single wage index.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2015-07.pdf
January 01, 2015 - Location
Census
ERS
Census
ERS
Census
ERS
WWAMI RHRC
Health
Professionals
Shortage Areas … Nielsen
uses intra-census methods to estimate household and demographic statistics for geographic
areas … classifies U.S. counties by size of the largest city
and nearness to metropolitan and micropolitan areas … On-going
Data System Home Page:
http://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/
Health Professional Shortage Areas … The
ten topical areas include: access to care, cost and affordability, coverage, health
information
-
hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2007_05.pdf
January 01, 2007 - current levels of cost of production of ED
care for different types of hospitals in different geographic areas … levels of
cost of production of ED care for different types of hospitals in different geographic
areas