KID Database Documentation - File Specifications

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	KID File Specifications The KID is a set of pediatric hospital inpatient databases included in the HCUP family. These databases are created by AHRQ through a Federal-State-Industry partnership.
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Kids' Inpatient Database (KID)

The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) is the only all-payer pediatric inpatient care database in the United States, containing data from approximately two million hospital stays. Its large sample size is ideal for developing national and regional estimates and enables analyses of rare conditions, such as congenital anomalies, as well as uncommon treatments, such as organ transplantation. The following links provide file specifications for the KID.

File specifications include the data set name, number of records, total record length, number of byes, and record layout.

ASCII Files

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2006 KID - ASCII Files Core File Data Set Name: KID_2006_CORE Number of Records: 3,131,324 Record layout Hospital Weights File Data Set Name: KID_2006_HOSPITAL Number of Records: 3,739 Record layout Severity File Data Set Name: KID_2006_SEVERITY Number of Records: 3,131,324 Record layout Diagnosis and Procedure Groups File Data Set Name: KID_2006_DX_PR_GRPS Number of Records: 3,131,324 Record layout	2003 KID - ASCII Files Core File Data Set Name: KID_2003.ASCII Number of Records: 2,984,129 Record layout Hospital Weights File Data Set Name: KID_2003.ASCII Number of Records: 3,438 Record layout Severity File Data Set Name: KID_2003.ASCII Number of Records: 2,984,129 Record layout
2000 KID - ASCII Files Core File Data Set Name: KID_2000.ASCII Number of Records: 2,516,833 Record layout Hospital Weights File Data Set Name: KID_2000.ASCII Number of Records: 2,784 Record layout	1997 KID - ASCII Files Core File Data Set Name: HCUP.KID_1997_CORE.ASC Number of Records: 1,905,757 Record layout Hospital Weights File Data Set Name: HCUP.KID_1997_HOSPITAL.ASC Number of Records: 2,521 Record layout

Internet Citation: HCUP KID File Specifications. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). June 2008. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/kid/kidfilespecs.jsp.

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Last modified 6/11/08