Metadata record for National Hospital Discharge Survey, 2000

National Hospital Discharge Survey, 2000 United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2005-11-04 3479 doi://10.3886/ICPSR03479.v1

The National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS) collects medical and demographic information annually from a sample of hospital discharge records. Variables include patients' demographic characteristics (sex, age, race, marital status), dates of admission and discharge, status at discharge, final diagnoses, surgical and nonsurgical procedures, dates of surgeries, and sources of payment. Information on hospital characteristics such as bedsize, ownership, and region of the country is also included. The medical information is coded using the INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES, 9TH REVISION, CLINICAL MODIFICATION (ICD-9-CM).

UniverseScheme03479 National Hospital Discharge Survey Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00043. NACDA.VI ICPSR.IX RCMD.V demographic characteristics health care facilities hospitalization hospitals illness medical care medical evaluation medical procedures medical records patients payment methods treatment United States 2000 2000 administrative records data Patient discharges from nonfederal short-stay hospitals located in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The redesigned (as of 1988) NHDS sample includes with certainty all hospitals with 1,000 or more beds or 40,000 or more discharges annually. The remaining sample of hospitals is based on a stratified three-stage design. The first stage consists of selection of 112 primary sampling units (PSUs) that comprise a probability subsample of PSUs used in the 1985-1994 National Health Interview Surveys. The second stage consists of selection of noncertainty hospitals from the sample PSUs. At the third stage, a sample of discharges was selected by a systematic random sampling technique. For 2000, the sample consisted of 509 hospitals. Of these, 28 were found to be ineligible. Of the 481 eligible hospitals, 434 hospitals responded to the survey. hospital records 2000 2000

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