SPARCS: New York State Hospital Inpatient Discharges for 2011
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Description
The Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) Inpatient De-identified dataset contains discharge-level detail on patient characteristics, diagnoses, treatments, services, charges, and costs for the year 2011. This data, provided by health.data.ny.gov, has been de-identified in compliance with HIPAA, with direct identifiers like specific dates redacted. It includes columns for Total Charges, Age Group, Race, Gender, Length of Stay, Facility Name, and clinical codes for diagnoses and procedures.
Use Cases
Predicting Length of Stay using Age Group, APR Severity of Illness Code, and Type of Admission.
Analyzing cost drivers by correlating Total Charges with CCS Diagnosis Code, APR DRG Code, and Length of Stay.
Profiling patient demographics and outcomes by Hospital County using Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Patient Disposition.
Classifying admission urgency or severity using Emergency Department Indicator, APR Risk of Mortality, and APR Severity of Illness Description.
Strengths
Contains detailed clinical and financial data across 30 columns, including diagnosis, procedure, severity, and charge information.
Data is formally de-identified per HIPAA standards, facilitating research use without special privacy approvals.
Covers a full calendar year (2011) of inpatient discharges across New York State, indicated by Discharge Year and Hospital County.
Limitations
Row count and total dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Specific dates have been redacted (day and month removed), limiting time-series analysis at a granular level.
Data may reflect geographic and systemic biases inherent to New York State's healthcare system in 2011.
Provenance
Source
health.data.ny.gov
Collection Method
Administrative discharge data collected via the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS).
Time Range
2011
Freshness
Last updated 2025-04-01 18:23:34; freshness should be verified.
Geography
New York State, United States (indicated by Hospital County and Health Service Area columns).
License is unknown and should be verified before use for commercial purposes. Data is de-identified, not anonymized; residual re-identification risk may exist.