http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/sparcs/. The "About" tab contains additional details concerning this dataset.
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- Tags
- quality-safety-costs, strategic initiatives, sparcs, ppc, potentially preventable complication, efficiency, all payer, inpatient
- SODA2 Only
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- Data Provided By
- Office of Quality and Patient Safety
- Source Link
- http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/sparcs/
- Agency
- Health, Department of
- Time Period
- Rates are based on hospital inpatient data for each calendar year beginning with 2009.
- Dataset Owner
- Bureau of Health Care Analytics
- Coverage
- Statewide
- Granularity
- Hospital
- Units
- 1)Observed Rate= PPC Discharges / At Risk Discharges *10,000 2) Expected Rate= Expected PPC Discharges / At Risk Discharges *10,000 3) Risk Adjusted PPC Rate= observed PPC rate/ expected PPC rate*statewide PPC rate 4) Difference in Rates=Observed Discharges - Expected Discharges
- Organization
- New York State Department of Health
- Data Frequency
- Annually
- Limitations
- Hospitals that did not have accurate present on admission (POA) variable reporting, as determined by POA validation testing, had all their discharges excluded from the analysis dataset.
- Notes
- 3M PPC Software version by year of the data: 2009‐2012 ‐ Version 31; 2013 ‐ Version 32 To calculate rates, discharges at risk for PPC assignment were used as the denominator. Rates were adjusted using APR‐DRG and severity of illness (SOI).