SPARCS data from health.data.ny.gov summarizes inpatient and outpatient opioid-related facility visits in New York State from 2010 onward. It includes counts and rates per 1,000 discharges for various visit types, broken down by county, payer, and rural/urban classification. This dataset is no longer being updated.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in opioid-related ER visits by modeling ER Rate Per 1000 against Year and Patient County Code.
- Compare opioid burden across geographic regions by clustering counties based on Overall Rate Per 1000 and Rural/Urban classification.
- Assess payer-specific utilization by predicting Payer from features like Inpatient Total Rate Per 1000 and Outpatient Rate Per 1000.
- Model the relationship between inpatient and outpatient care using Inpatient Total Opioid and Outpatient Opioid columns.
Strengths
- Contains over 20 specific metrics including counts and standardized rates per 1,000 discharges
- Provides multi-dimensional breakdowns by Year, Patient County Name, Payer, and Rural/Urban status
Limitations
- Dataset is no longer being updated, limiting analysis to historical trends up to an unspecified end year
- Unknown row count and sample size prevent assessment of statistical power
Provenance
- Source
- health.data.ny.gov via the SPARCS (Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System) program
- Collection Method
- Summary of inpatient discharge and outpatient visit administrative data for opioid-related diagnoses
- Time Range
- Beginning 2010
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- New York State, broken down by Patient County