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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/reports/NIS_1999_Design_Report.jsp
January 01, 1999 - Hospital Weights
Hospital weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within stratum s, each NIS sample hospital's universe weight was calculated as:
W s (universe) = N … Discharge weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within stratum s, for hospital i, each NIS sample discharge's universe weight was calculated as:
DW … Standard errors and confidence intervals can then be calculated from the validation data.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/reports/NIS_2005_Design_Report.pdf
January 01, 2005 - These NIS Trends Weights were
calculated in the same way as the weights for 1998 and later years of … Hospital Weights
Hospital weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within each stratum s, each NIS
sample hospital's universe weight was calculated as:
Ws(universe) … Discharge weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Standard
errors and confidence intervals can then be calculated from the validation data.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/reports/NIS_2004_Design_Report.pdf
January 01, 2004 - These alternative weights were
calculated in the same way as the weights for the 1998 and later years … Hospital Weights
Hospital weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within each stratum s, each NIS
sample hospital's universe weight was calculated as:
Ws(universe) … Discharge weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Standard
errors and confidence intervals can then be calculated from the validation data.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/reports/NIS_2003_Design_Report_Edited_012506.pdf
January 01, 2003 - These alternative weights were
calculated in the same way as the weights for the 1998 and later years … Hospital Weights
Hospital weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within each stratum s, each NIS
sample hospital's universe weight was calculated as:
Ws(universe) … Discharge weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Standard
errors and confidence intervals can then be calculated from the validation data.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/reports/Changes_in_NIS_Design_1998.pdf
January 01, 1998 - An estimate calculated
under the new sample design will differ from that which would have been calculated … Other long-term care beds
Calculated Total hospital beds
C.19. … Nursing home admissions
Calculated Hospital unit admissions
E.1.e. … Nursing home inpatient days
Calculated Hospital unit inpatient days
E.1.f. … Nursing home Medicare days
Calculated Hospital unit Medicare days
E.2.c.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/MS2015-09%20Addendum.pdf
December 10, 2022 - additional guidance on a SAS® option for PROC
SURVEYMEANS that will ensure that the variance estimate is calculated
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/reports/KID_2000_Design_Report.pdf
January 01, 2000 - Ideally, relationships among outcomes and their correlates
calculated from the KID should hold across … Ideally, relationships among outcomes and their correlates
calculated from the KID should hold across … Discharge weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within
stratum k, for hospital i, each KID sample discharge's universe weight was calculated as: … Standard
errors and confidence intervals can then be calculated from the validation data.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2004_07.pdf
January 01, 2004 - The adjusted rate was calculated as follows (and subsequently multiplied by
100,000):
. … The estimates for the numerator, S*, and its standard error, SES*, were calculated in
similar fashion … We calculated the observed rate as follows:
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1
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2007_06.pdf
January 01, 2007 - The adjusted rate was calculated as follows (and subsequently multiplied by 100,000):
. … The estimates for the numerator, S*, and its standard error, SES*, were calculated in similar
fashion … We calculated the observed rate as follows:
.000,1000,1
1
1
N
S
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xw
R n
i
i
n
i
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1
,
)(
1
,,36
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,36
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calculated the test statistic and (two-sided) p-value:
)Prob(*2
2
2
2
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21
tZp
SESE
RRt
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/nisrelatedreports.jsp
February 01, 2025 - file, 565 KB; HTML )
Addendum: Provides additional guidance to ensure that variance estimates are calculated … file, 642 KB; HTML )
Addendum: Provides additional guidance to ensure that variance estimates are calculated
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2012_03.pdf
January 01, 2012 - For a benchmark to be calculated,
rates for at least 30 States needed to be available. … Volume measure PDI 7 (pediatric heart
surgery) is also not calculated. … Volume measures IQI 1 to 7 are not
calculated. … **Calculated using Kaiser Family Foundation, statehealthfacts.org. … The adjusted rate was calculated as follows (and subsequently multiplied by 100,000):
.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/reports/NIS_2002_Design_Report.pdf
January 01, 2002 - Hospital Weights
Hospital weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within each stratum s, each NIS
sample hospital's universe weight was calculated as:
Ws(universe) … Discharge weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within stratum s, for
hospital i, each NIS sample discharge's universe weight was calculated as: … Standard
errors and confidence intervals can then be calculated from the validation data.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/reports/NIS_2001_Design_Report.pdf
January 01, 2001 - Hospital Weights
Hospital weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within each stratum s, each NIS
sample hospital's universe weight was calculated as:
Ws(universe) … Discharge weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within stratum s, for
hospital i, each NIS sample discharge's universe weight was calculated as: … Standard
errors and confidence intervals can then be calculated from the validation data.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/hms/HMSUserGuide2003.pdf
August 30, 2006 - A hospital’s market share is calculated as
the number of discharges from that hospital divided by the … For each hospital, we calculated the distance between
the hospital and the patient ZIP Codes that it … Third, for each hospital, we calculated the proportion
of this hospital’s discharges that came from
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/APS-DRGsV20WeightsManual.pdf
January 06, 2025 - Means are recalculated and
weights are derived by dividing these means by averages calculated across … Finally, a series of
summary statistics were calculated from the output files to assess data quality … Initial outlier trim points were calculated at 3.0 standard deviations from the
overall arithmetic mean … The latter was calculated
by dividing the total days, charges, or deaths in the input database by the … Normalized weights for the APS-DRGs were standardized to ensure that the
average weight calculated
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/Comparison_Report_NIS21993Final.pdf
April 03, 1997 - Most statistics calculated from the NIS are consistent with those from the NHDS, particularly
those for … NIS statistics were mainly compared with
those calculated from the following three data sources:
1. … Statistics calculated from the NHDS do have sampling error. … Medicare discharge statistics calculated
from this source have no sampling error associated with them … The standard errors were calculated as follows.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2011_06.pdf
January 01, 2011 - For a benchmark to be calculated,
rates for at least 30 States needed to be available. … Incidence measures PDI 3 (foreign
body) and PDI 13 (transfusion reaction) are not calculated. … Volume measure PDI 7 (pediatric heart
surgery) is also not calculated. … Volume measures IQI 1 to 7 are not
calculated. … **Calculated using Kaiser Family Foundation, statehealthfacts.org.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/KIDIntroduction2022.pdf
December 01, 2024 - These trends weights were calculated in the same
way as the weights for the 2000 and later years of … Standard
errors and confidence intervals can then be calculated from the validation data. … Discharge weights to the universe were calculated by post-stratification. … Within
stratum k, for hospital i, each KID sample discharge's universe weight was calculated as: … • In the normal newborns strata, Rk is the frame sampling rate for normal newborns
calculated as
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/CaseStudy_QDRanalysis04072017.pdf
April 07, 2017 - Within each reporting category, we calculated the absolute percentage difference between the
true 2014 … Provider-level QI rates are not calculated or used by the QDR. … Table 1 details how the three alternative approaches were calculated for the two different types
of … The weights were calculated separately for
numerator and denominator counts. … For example, the weights for the numerator of QIi were
calculated as the following:
Sum of counts
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/APS_DRGsWeightsV26Public.pdf
April 01, 2010 - Means are recalculated and weights are
derived by dividing these means by averages calculated across … Finally, a series of summary
statistics were calculated from the output files to assess data quality … CALCULATE AND APPLY TRIMS
Initial outlier trim points were calculated at 3.0 standard deviations from … Using these
trimmed data, a second set of trim points was calculated, again using 3.0 standard
deviations … The latter was calculated by
dividing the total days, charges, or deaths in the input database by the