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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/seddoverview.jsp
July 01, 2025 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … Information about patients initially seen in the ED and then admitted to the hospital is included in … also available to identify preventable hospitalizations, estimate costs, assess quality of care and patient … safety, categorize diagnoses and procedures, and identify comorbidities. … included in a hospital discharge abstract, such as:
All-listed diagnoses and procedures
Patient
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/sasdoverview.jsp
July 01, 2025 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … The databases contain a core set of clinical and nonclinical information on all patients, regardless … also available to identify preventable hospitalizations, estimate costs, assess quality of care and patient … safety, categorize diagnoses and procedures, and identify comorbidities. … that is included in a typical discharge abstract, with safeguards to protect the privacy of individual patients
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2017-02.pdf
January 01, 2017 - Consumer Product
Safety Commission (CPSC). … to
external databases (i.e., American Hospital Association Annual Survey, National Highway
Traffic Safety … mortality rates) were analyzed for four
possible additional stratifiers: two hospital characteristics (safety … With regard to the patient characteristics, we found slight variation by patient sex using the 2013 … performance
achievement indicators over 12 and 24 months.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb260-appendix.pdf
December 25, 2022 - ://www.usreligioncensus.org/
2
Characteristic Description Data source Website Year
Community safety … The index ranges from 0
(worst) to 10 (best) and equally
weights two indicators: limited access
to … drug seizures in the state that were
tested and confirmed to contain
fentanyl
Opioid & Health
Indicators … prescriptions for third parties (i.e.,
people with whom the prescriber
does not have a prescriber-patient
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/news/archives.jsp
January 01, 2022 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … location, safety-net hospital status, hospital location/teaching status, hospital ownership, and hospital … 812 KB), Appendix (Excel file, 290 KB)
Methods Report 2021-03 Methods Applying AHRQ Quality Indicators … Disparities Report (NHQDR) (PDF file, 4.4 MB)
Methods Report 2021-02 Methods for Calculating Patient … KB)
HCUP Statistical Brief #275 COVID-19-Related Hospitalizations in 13 States, by Patient
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/raceethnicitytoolkit/or31.jsp
August 01, 2014 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … misclassified more frequently than other races/ethnicities
Misclassification errors may follow a patient … Injury Prevention Coalition → 5-year Tribal Injury Prevention Action Plan
Focus on motor vehicle safety … to design, implement, and test the effectiveness of tribal interventions to improve the use of child safety
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb213-Safety-Net-Hospitals-2014.pdf
January 01, 2014 - By definition, SNHs accounted for 25 percent of all hospitals, but SNHs provided patient care for
nearly … The mean patient age among inpatient stays at SNHs was 43.0 years compared with 51.4 years
among stays … Conversely, 20.9 percent of discharges at SNHs were patients aged 65–
84 years and 5.7 percent were patients … However, they
provided patient care for 33 percent of all inpatient stays across these 40 States in … The income quartile is missing for patients who
are homeless or foreign.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb310-state-variation-sepsis-2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - Figure 3 shows the
percentages by patient population (nonmaternal adult patients 65 years and older, … nonmaternal adult patients 18-64
years, patients with maternal conditions, children aged 28 days - … 17 years (pediatric patients), and neonatal patients aged
0-27 days). … Umscheid, M.D., M.S., Director
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS)
Agency … Safety (CQuIPS)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb11.jsp
June 11, 2008 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … safety and cost concerns. … the rise.* The increase in elective C-sections has sparked recent attention, given mother and infant safety … A recent NIH State-of-the-Science conference addressed safety and quality concerns regarding Cesarean … DRGs comprise a patient classification system that categorizes patients into groups that are clinically
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/clinicalcontentenhancementtoolkit/data_collection.jsp
February 01, 2025 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … safety events and healthcare outcomes. … regarding drug therapies, and dosage and timing of pharmacologic agents administered to hospitalized patients … Linked data can be used as a measure of patient outcomes based on hospital mortality rates, and also … Tools
Matching Patients across Institutions without Definitive Patient Identifiers ( HTML )
Discussion
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb78.pdf
August 01, 2009 - ■ Hospital stays in which the
patient left AMA were 1.6 times
more common among men than
among … all other patients. … times more
common in AMA stays than other hospital stays, respectively.
3 Prevention Quality Indicators … AHRQ Quality Indicators. July 2004. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. … Using Administrative Data to Monitor Access, Identify Disparities, and Assess Performance of the Safety
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb158.jsp
July 01, 2013 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … Adverse Drug Events Among Hospitalized
Medicare Patients: Epidemiology and National Estimates from … The Joint Comm.J. on Quality and Patient Safety. 2010, 36:1, 12-21.
8 Classen DC, Pestotnik SL, Evans … Adverse drug events in hospitalized patients. … Quality and Safety in Health Care. 2008;17;216–23.
11 Levinson DR.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb218-Malnutrition-Readmissions-2013.jsp
December 01, 2016 - Variables for Revisit Analyses
American Hospital Association (AHA) Linkage Files
AHRQ Quality Indicators … A patient can have multiple index stays during the course of a year. … among patients with any type of malnutrition during an index stay in 2013, overall and by patient characteristics … residing in metropolitan areas, compared with other patient subgroups. … Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2015;41(10):469-73.
7 Lean M, Wiseman M.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/KIDIntroduction2022.pdf
December 01, 2024 - safety,
and the impact of health policy changes. … safety,
and the impact of health policy changes. … There is no uniform patient identifier available that allows a patient-level
analysis with the KID. … There is no uniform patient identifier available that allows a patient-level
analysis with the KID. … Type of
Data Element HCUP Name Coding Notes
All Patient
Refined DRG
(3M)
APRDRG All Patient Refined
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/HCUP_Overview/HCUP_Overview/index508.jsp
October 01, 2022 - The SID
Some SID include synthetic patient linkage numbers that can be used to track patients within … After exclusions for missing or questionable patient linkage numbers and patients aged 0 years in some … AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) include:
Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs) identify hospital admissions … Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) focus on potentially avoidable complications and adverse events. … Quality is described in terms of six priorities: patient safety, person-centered care, care coordination
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb309-sepsis-race-2016-2021.pdf
January 01, 2021 - patient populations. … Number of Inpatient Stays Related to Sepsis by Patient Race and Ethnicity, 2019 and 2021
Patient race … Patients in the first quartile are assigned to the lowest income category, patients in
the middle two … Umscheid, M.D., M.S., Director
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety
(CQuIPS)
Agency … Safety
(CQuIPS)
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/news/exhibit_booth/HCUPOverviewDeck_121422.pdf
February 09, 2022 - elements are available:
► Value-added variables (supplemental variables for revisit
analyses, injury indicators … , indicators for observation and ED
services)
► Hospital characteristics (teaching status, ownership … Generate national and regional estimates
of inpatient utilization, access, quality,
patient safety … safety, etc. … safety, etc.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/kid_2019_introduction.jsp
January 01, 2012 - safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … There is no uniform patient identifier available that allows a patient-level analysis with the KID. … There is no uniform patient identifier available that allows a patient-level analysis with the KID. … Type of Data Element
HCUP Name
Coding Notes
All Patient Refined DRG (3M)
APRDRG
All Patient
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/kid_2012_introduction.jsp
January 01, 1998 - safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … safety, and the impact of health policy changes. … There is no uniform patient identifier available that allows a patient-level analysis with the KID. … lengths of stay than patients in other community hospitals. … Refined DRG (3M)
APRDRG
All Patient Refined DRG
APRDRG_Risk_Mortality
All Patient Refined
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/tech_assist/faq.jsp
October 01, 2024 - For questions about using the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs), visit
the AHRQualityIndicators™ … The patient linkage numbers ( NRD_VisitLink )
do not track the same patient across years of the … My administrative data do not include indicators that a diagnosis was POA, which is required for 18 of … Therefore, your data must include indicators that a diagnosis was present on admission (POA). … safety
Differences in outcomes between hospital type
National estimates of hospital readmissions