Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project: Discharge - Home Health Care | Age: All Ages | Gender: All Genders | Race: All Races | Clinical Classification Code: 1 | Clinical Classification Code - Diagnosis: tuberculosis, 2001 - 2010. Data-Planet™ Statistical Datasets by Conquest Systems, Inc. Dataset-ID: 049-001-019
Dataset: Persons discharged from the hospital for professional medical care in their homes.
A major part of The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) contains data on hospital inpatient stays. The largest all-payer inpatient care database in the US, the NIS obtains data on approximately 8 million hospital stays each year, as reported in the discharge records of 1,045 hospitals in 38 States, approximating a 20-percent stratified sample of U.S. community hospitals. It is the only national hospital database with charge information on all patients, regardless of payer, including persons covered by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and the uninsured. Researchers and policymakers use the NIS to identify, track, and analyze national trends in health care utilization, access, charges, quality, and outcomes. The large sample size of the NIS also enables analysis of rare conditions, such as congenital anomalies; uncommon treatments, such as organ transplantation; and special patient populations, such as the uninsured.
http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/nisoverview.jsp
Category: Health and Vital Statistics
Subject: Home Health Care, Hospital Discharges
Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
A part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has a mission to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The Agency conducts and supports health services research to assess treatment alternatives, improve treatment outcomes, and reduce health care costs.
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