This release of the public, hospital discharge data sets consists of 11 files. All data files are self-extracting "zip" files and are in Microsoft Access (.mdb) format. The "look-up" tables are in Excel (.xls) format. The DIAGNOSIS_ID.xls file is also "zipped" for faster downloading. |
File Name | Description |
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APRDRG 2003 2.6 mb | Discharge data summarized by Hospital, APR-DRG, Severity and Primary Payor |
HCFADRG 2003 0.9 mb | Discharge data summarized by Hospital, HCFA DRG and Primary Payor |
DIAGNOSIS 2003 3.6 mb | Discharge data summarized by Hospital, Principal Diagnosis and Primary Payor |
PROCEDURES 2003 0.9 mb | Discharge data summarized by Hospital, Principal Procedure and Primary Payor |
APRDRG ID 45 kb | Code number and description of the
APR-DRGs |
HCFADRG ID 57 kb | Code number and description of the
HCFA DRGs |
DIAGNOSIS ID 277 kb | Code number (ICD-9-CM) and description of the Principal Diagnoses |
PROCEDURES ID 413 kb | Code number (ICD-9-CM) and description of the Principal Procedures |
HOSPITAL ID 2003 33 kb | Code number, name,
and city
of the facilities |
VARIABLES ID 2003 17 kb | Names (labels) and descriptions of the data set variables |
PAYOR1 ID 2003 14 kb | Code number and description
of the Primary Payors |
All negative numbers and those charges reported as "$0.00" have been changed to "missing." Please note that all APR-DRGs were redefined in 1998. |