SASD File Composition - North Carolina

SASD File Composition: North Carolina

This section describes the original data files obtained from data organizations in participating states and used to create HCUP databases. Information about the source of the original data files, the types of hospitals included in those files, the records excluded during HCUP processing (if any), and other pertinent information to understand the composition of these files are presented.

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Source Files

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services provides AS data to HCUP in a single source file. The file includes information from ambulatory surgery centers that are associated with acute care hospitals and data from freestanding ambulatory surgery centers.

Selection of Records in 2003, Version 1 Files, Only

Using the standard HCUP criteria for assigning records to the 2003 SASD, the source records are separated as follows::

96.5% of source records are assigned to the SASD
3.5% of source records are excluded.

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Internet Citation: HCUP Central Distributor SASD North Carolina File Composition. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). August 2006
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/state/sasddist/sasddist_filecompnc.jsp.

Last modified 8/15/06