United States hospital discharge records for 1996, collected by the National Center for Health Statistics. The survey includes patient demographics, admission and discharge dates, diagnoses, procedures, and payment sources, with medical information coded in ICD-9-CM. It also contains data on hospital characteristics such as bedsize, ownership, and region.
Use Cases
- Analyze demographic disparities in hospital outcomes based on patient characteristics like age, sex, and race.
- Study trends in surgical and nonsurgical procedure utilization based on procedure codes.
- Model hospital resource allocation and costs based on bedsize, ownership, and payment source data.
- Train ICD-9-CM code classification models using the final diagnoses and procedure variables.
Strengths
- Data is collected by a U.S. national statistical agency, the National Center for Health Statistics.
- Includes a defined set of variables covering patient demographics, clinical details, and hospital characteristics.
- Medical information is standardized using the ICD-9-CM coding system.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics
- Collection Method
- Annual sample of hospital discharge records.
- Time Range
- 1996
- Geography
- United States