Hospital Patient Safety Indicator Rates and Volumes for New York State 2015

Hospital discharge counts and risk-adjusted rates for Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) across New York State facilities for calendar year 2015. The data was generated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) methodology using SPARCS inpatient records and US Census data. It is published by health.data.ny.gov and was last updated in April 2025.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital performance on specific PSI measures like surgical complications using PSI Code and PSI Value columns.
• Analyzing geographic variation in patient safety by comparing rates across Hospital County or Hospital Region.
• Identifying high-volume hospitals for specific adverse events using the Volume column filtered by PSI Code.
• Studying the relationship between hospital characteristics (e.g., Facility ID, Hospital Name) and risk-adjusted safety outcomes.

Strengths

• Includes risk-adjusted rates with 95% confidence intervals for standardized comparison.
• Covers multiple PSI measures across all hospitals in New York State for a full calendar year.
• Data generated using established AHRQ methodology applied to statewide SPARCS records.

Limitations

• Dataset is limited to a single year (2015), offering only a cross-sectional view.
• Row count and sample size for each indicator are unknown, limiting statistical power assessment.
• Geographic scope is restricted to New York State, limiting national generalizability.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Calculated from inpatient discharge records and US Census denominators using AHRQ PSI methodology.

Time Range

Calendar year 2015.

Freshness

Data reflects 2015 discharges, but metadata was updated in April 2025.

Geography

New York State, USA (hospital and county level).