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Title: Hospital Discharge Database
GeneralDescription: All admissions to non-psychiatric, nonfederal hospitals in North Carolina.

All hospitals in NC required to submit patient-level hospital discharge data to a data keeper (currently Thomson, Healthcare Inc.) responsible for making medical care data available to interested parties. The contractor supplies the State Center for Health Statistics copies of the data for analysis for public health programs.

You must go through SCHS to access data. Reports available at
http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/data/databook/

OtherVariables: Demographic

Conditions

Hospital data :
Length of stay
Total charges

County
Region
State

StrengthsWeaknesses: Age specific data

Good information for rural areas

No prevalence information

Analysis by race is not possible due to poor reporting on hospital discharge records

YearsAvailable: 1993- 1995
1995 – present
Data for a CY is usually closed 12 -16 months after the close of the reporting year.

Updates: Every quarter until file closed out for year
ContactInfo: Yuan Fan,
Statistician
State Center for Health Statistics
(919) 715-4493
yuan.fan@dhhs.net
r2 - 2009-10-03 - 01:34:41 - BrandonHall
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