SID File Composition - South 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 HCUP South Carolina inpatient files were constructed from confidential data files supplied by the South Carolina State Budget and Control Board.

Which Hospitals

The South Carolina data include inpatient stays from acute care hospitals.

Not all hospitals report a full calendar year of data. Some hospitals close during the year; other hospitals have technical problems that prevent them from reporting a full year.

Inclusion of Stays in Special Units

The documentation supplied by South Carolina indicates that stays in long term care units and facilities were excluded by South Carolina from the supplied data.

Exclusion of Records

The following records were excluded from the HCUP South Carolina data:

Beginning in 1994, discharges with disposition of "still a patient" were excluded from the HCUP inpatient database. This disposition was not used in 1993 and no exclusion was necessary for that year.
Beginning in 1996, discharges with a disposition indicating "patient was admitted as an inpatient to this hospital" were excluded from the HCUP inpatient database. This disposition was not used prior to 1997, and no exclusion was necessary for those years.

SID Notes

Fragmentary Records in the 1996 South Carolina SID. The 1996 data file supplied by South Carolina had a few fragmentary records scattered throughout the raw file. These records have invalid hospital identifiers, DSHOSPID, and should be excluded from the HCUP South Carolina SID.

Delete records with DSHOSPID < "010".

These fragmentary records have already been removed from the publicly released Central Distributor SID files.