U.S. Hospital Discharge Diagnoses and Procedures, 1997

U.S. national hospital discharge survey data for 1997, compiled by Maria Owings. The dataset likely contains detailed records of patient diagnoses and medical procedures from hospital discharges. The exact number of records, columns, and file format is unspecified.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in diagnosis and procedure codes for a specific year (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Training models to categorize or predict healthcare utilization based on discharge records (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Benchmarking clinical code distributions for epidemiological studies (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Published on paperswithcode.
• Authored by a named individual (Maria Owings).

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download.
• Row count, columns, and file formats are unknown.
• License is listed as closed, restricting reuse.

Provenance

Source

Maria Owings

Collection Method

Likely a national survey (National Hospital Discharge Survey).

Time Range

1997

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

United States (inferred from 'National' in title).