Hospital Inpatient Quality Indicators by Hospital and County for 2015

SPARCS data from 2009 onward underpins this set of hospital quality measures developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The dataset contains counts, observed and expected rates, and confidence intervals for mortality, utilization, and volume indicators for calendar year 2015. It is published by health.data.ny.gov and was last updated in April 2025.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital performance using Observed Rate, Expected Rate, and 95% confidence intervals across different IQI Codes.
• Analyzing regional healthcare disparities by comparing Hospital County and Hospital Region with risk-adjusted rates.
• Identifying high-volume or low-volume procedure centers using Total Cases and Numerator columns for specific IQI Codes.
• Modeling the relationship between hospital volume (Total Cases) and outcome rates (Observed Rate) for procedure-specific quality indicators.

Strengths

• Data is calculated using a recognized methodology from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
• Includes confidence intervals for rates, allowing for statistical significance assessment.
• Covers multiple quality dimensions: mortality, utilization, and procedure volume.
• Provides geographic breakdowns by Hospital County and Hospital Region.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single year (2015), limiting longitudinal analysis without additional files.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

health.data.ny.gov, using Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) inpatient data.

Collection Method

Indicators calculated from hospital administrative discharge data beginning in 2009, with US Census data used for area-level denominators.

Time Range

Calendar Year 2015 (calculated from data beginning 2009).

Freshness

Last updated 2025-04-02 14:39:53; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New York State, United States (by Hospital County and Hospital Region).