2022 discharge-level data from the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) contains patient characteristics, diagnoses, treatments, services, and charges. The de-identified data is published by health.data.ny.gov and was last updated on April 1, 2025.
Use Cases
- Analyzing Length of Stay patterns using APR Severity of Illness Description and Patient Disposition.
- Comparing Total Charges and Total Costs across different Hospital Service Areas and Facility Names.
- Studying admission patterns using Type of Admission, Emergency Department Indicator, and Payment Typology columns.
- Investigating clinical outcomes using APR DRG Description, APR Risk of Mortality, and CCSR Diagnosis Description.
Strengths
- Data includes 29 columns covering demographics, clinical details, financials, and facility information.
- De-identified to remove protected health information (PHI) under HIPAA.
- Data is sourced from a statewide cooperative system (SPARCS) for planning and research.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Date identifiers have been redacted, limiting temporal granularity within the year.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- health.data.ny.gov via the Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS).
- Collection Method
- Administrative collection of hospital inpatient discharge records.
- Time Range
- 2022.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-04-01 18:34:05; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- New York State, indicated by Hospital County and Hospital Service Area columns.