New York Hospital Inpatient Discharges for 2014

Hospital discharge records detail patient characteristics, diagnoses, treatments, services, and charges. The dataset contains de-identified inpatient data for the year 2014. It is published by the New York State Department of Health via the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS).

Use Cases

• Predict Length of Stay using Age Group, APR Severity of Illness Code, and CCS Diagnosis Code.
• Analyze patterns in Total Charges by Payment Typology 1, Health Service Area, and APR DRG Code.
• Model APR Risk of Mortality based on patient demographics like Age Group, Gender, and Race.
• Identify relationships between CCS Procedure Description, APR Medical Surgical Description, and patient Discharge Year.

Strengths

• Contains 30 distinct columns covering demographics, diagnoses, procedures, and financials.
• Data is de-identified to remove protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA.

Limitations

• Sample size and total row count are unknown.
• Data is limited to a single year (2014), offering a cross-sectional view without temporal trends.
• Geographic coverage is restricted to New York State hospitals.

Provenance

Source

New York State Department of Health (health.data.ny.gov).

Collection Method

Collected via the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) from hospital discharge reports.

Time Range

2014

Freshness

Data reflects discharges from 2014; metadata was updated in April 2025.

Geography

New York State, USA.