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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2013_02.pdf
January 01, 2013 - topicId=24
HCUP (06/13/2013) 2 Evaluation of E Codes
METHODS
We defined injury records using … Records with injuries are identified by ICD-9-CM diagnoses and E codes using the scheme
recommended … ICD-9-CM Codes Used to Identify Injury Records
ICD-9-CM Diagnosis
Codes
Description
800-909.2, … Percentage of injury records with an injury E code Percentage
of injury
records
without an
injury … Percentage of injury records with an injury E code Percentage
of injury
records
without an
injury
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/NRDIntroduction2021.pdf
March 01, 2024 - ” record. … “combined” record in the NRD and the original separate
discharge records were removed from the NRD. … Records that were part of transfers or same-day stays were collapsed into a single combined
record. … Creating a Combined Transfer Record
Combining information across transfer and same-day stay records … • Use last record.
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS2014Introduction.pdf
December 12, 2016 - The HCUP criteria for identifying an ED record (i.e., a
discharge record for a patient with an ED event … to be ED records, even though information was not available on the record to
determine if the HCUP … • The NEDS contains event-level records, not patient-level records. … , record length,
and record layout
• Nationwide SAS Load Programs
• Nationwide SPSS Load Programs … Record
identifier,
synthetic
KEY_ED Unique HCUP NEDS record number – links to NEDS
Supplemental
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS2018Introduction.pdf
November 01, 2020 - on the record. … The HCUP criterion for identifying an ED record (i.e., a discharge record for a
patient with an ED visit … • The NEDS contains encounter-level records, not patient-level records. … , record length,
and record layout
• Nationwide SAS Load Programs
• Nationwide SPSS Load Programs … Record identifier,
synthetic
KEY_ED Unique HCUP NEDS record number—links to NEDS
Supplemental Files
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/nm.jsp
October 01, 2010 - Linkage of electronic hospital discharge records with birth certificate records and Indian Health Service … records periodically will track improvements in the reliability of race, ethnicity and tribal identifier … following discharge to compare their race, ethnicity and tribal identifier by self-report with hospital records
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_Sources_and_Restrictions_2000.pdf
January 01, 2000 - Restrictions
2000
FL Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Confidentiality of Records … Restrictions
Sources of NIS Data and State-Specific Restrictions
2000
Confidentiality of Records … Confidentiality of Records
Massachusetts requested the following variable be set to missing: … Confidentiality of Records
South Carolina requested that the following variable be set to missing … HIV or drug/alcohol use patients are identified by any
principal or secondary diagnosis code on the record
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/KID_Sources_and_Restrictions_2000.pdf
January 01, 2000 - Confidentiality of Records
CHIME requested the following variables be set to missing:
Sources … Admission month
FL Florida Agency for Health Care Administration
Confidentiality of Records … Confidentiality of Records
Massachusetts requested the following variables be set to missing: … Confidentiality of Records
South Carolina requested that the following variables be set to missing … HIV or drug/alcohol use patients are identified by any
principal or secondary diagnosis code on the record
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb308-hospital-sepsis-2019-2022-addendum.pdf
January 01, 2022 - Less than one percent of records for rural hospitals were missing safety-net status. … Less than one percent of records for rural hospitals were
missing safety-net status. … Less than one percent of records for rural hospitals were missing safety-net status. … Less than one percent of records for
rural hospitals were missing safety-net status. … Records missing patient age information were included in this group because it was the largest of the
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS_Introduction_2014.jsp
January 01, 2014 - reported on the record. … The HCUP criteria for identifying an ED record (i.e., a discharge record for a patient with an ED event … to be ED records, even though information was not available on the record to determine if the HCUP criteria … , record length, and record layout
Nationwide SAS Load Programs
Nationwide SPSS Load Programs … Record identifier, synthetic
KEY_ED
Unique HCUP NEDS record number — links to NEDS Supplemental files
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/state/siddist/sid_multi.jsp
August 01, 2025 - includes the source of the original data files, the types of hospitals included in those files, the records … Therefore, the SID may include records for inpatient stays that began in the ED or in observation. … Inpatient records with evidence of ED services or OS can be identified using two separate HCUP variables
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/trendwghts.jsp
June 01, 2024 - three major types of changes:
Revisions to the sample design—the NIS is now a sample of discharge records … .
1994
34,622,203
33,149,768
-1,472,435
33,148,180
1,588
HCUPnet removed outlier records … .
1995
34,791,998
33,647,121
-1,144,877
33,644,908
2,213
HCUPnet removed outlier records … .
1996
34,874,386
33,386,097
-1,488,289
33,384,374
1,723
HCUPnet removed outlier records … .
1997
35,408,207
33,232,257
-2,175,950
33,230,554
1,703
HCUPnet removed outlier records
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS_Introduction_2009.jsp
January 01, 2009 - reported on the record. … The HCUP criteria for identifying an ED record (i.e., a discharge record for a patient with an ED event … The NEDS contains event -level records, not patient -level records. … , record length, and record layout
Load Programs
Programs to load the ASCII data files … Record identifier, synthetic
KEY_ED
Unique HCUP NEDS record number – links to NEDS Supplemental files
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/dqtr/nisnote.jsp
September 01, 2008 - Florida
Beginning in 2004, Florida supplied discharge dates for all records. … sampled one fourth of the Massachusetts NIS discharges from the first three quarters and modified the records … diagnosis group for the principal diagnosis, sex, age, and a random number before selecting every fourth record … The following describes the adjustments made to the selected Massachusetts NIS records:
We relabeled … We then adjusted the discharge weights for the Massachusetts records to appropriately account for the
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/dqtr/kidnote.jsp
September 01, 2008 - Florida
Beginning in 2004, Florida supplied discharge dates for all records. … sampled one fourth of the Massachusetts NIS discharges from the first three quarters and modified the records … diagnosis group for the principal diagnosis, sex, age, and a random number before selecting every fourth record … The following describes the adjustments made to the selected Massachusetts NIS records:
We relabeled … We then adjusted the discharge weights for the Massachusetts records to appropriately account for the
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/drg/kidnote.jsp
September 01, 2008 - The DRG Grouper does not recognize the "V300" code on October 1, 1989 and therefore groups the record … The following number of records are affected: 1 record in 1989 and 1 record in 1990. … The following number of records are affected:
for 1988, 34 records;
for 1989, 30 records;
for … 1990, 44 records; and
for 1991, 33 records. … System problems at the hospital caused the last procedure coded on the medical record to be stored as
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nrd/NRD_Introduction_2010-2014.jsp
January 01, 2014 - "combined" record in the NRD and removed the original separate discharge records from the NRD. … " record. … "combined" record in the NRD and removed the original separate discharge records from the NRD. … We collapsed records that were part of transfers or same-day stays into a single combined record. … Creating a Combined Transfer Record
Combining information across transfer and same-day stay records
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS2010Introductionv3.pdf
November 01, 2015 - reported on the record. … The HCUP criteria for identifying an ED record (i.e., a
discharge record for a patient with an ED event … The NEDS contains event-level records, not patient-level records. … ,
record length, and record layout
Load Programs
Programs to load the NEDS CSV data
files into … Record
identifier,
synthetic
KEY_ED Unique HCUP NEDS record number – links to NEDS
Supplemental
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/neds/NEDS_Introduction_2010.jsp
January 01, 2010 - reported on the record. … The HCUP criteria for identifying an ED record (i.e., a discharge record for a patient with an ED event … The NEDS contains event -level records, not patient -level records. … , record length, and record layout
Load Programs
Programs to load the NEDS CSV data files … Record identifier, synthetic
KEY_ED
Unique HCUP NEDS record number — links to NEDS Supplemental files
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/methods/2015-03.pdf
January 01, 2015 - METHODS
We defined injury records using only the first-listed diagnosis (DX1). … Records with injuries are identified by ICD-9-CM diagnoses and E codes using the scheme
recommended … ICD-9-CM Codes Used to Identify Injury Records
ICD-9-CM Diagnosis
Codes
Description
800-909.2, … Percentage of injury records with an injury E code Percentage
of injury
records
without an
injury … Percentage of injury records with an injury E code Percentage
of injury
records
without an
injury
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hcup-us.ahrq.gov/datainnovations/raceethnicitytoolkit/data_improve_linkages.jsp
February 01, 2025 - Data sources can be examined to eliminate duplicate records, to identify under-reporting and missing … Data linkage can be accomplished manually (by visually comparing records from two separate sources) but … this approach becomes time consuming, tedious, inefficient, and unpractical as the number of records … traditional, exact matching methods when coding errors, reporting variations, missing data, or duplicate records … Data Linkage Strategies
Record Linkage Concepts ( PDF file, 678 KB; HTML )
A presentation on the