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Central Distributor SID: Description of Data Elements

 
APGAR5 - Five-minute APGAR score
 
Documentation Sections:
General Notes
Uniform Values
State Specific Notes
General Notes
 

The Apgar score was designed to quickly evaluate a newborn's physical condition after delivery. The Apgar test is usually given to a baby twice: once at 1 minute after birth, and again at 5 minutes after birth. Five factors are used to evaluate the baby's condition and each factor is scored on a scale of 0 to 2:

  • Activity and muscle tone
  • Pulse (heart rate)
  • Grimace response (medically known as "reflex irritability")
  • Appearance (skin coloration)
  • Respiration (breathing rate and effort)

A value of 0 indicates death; the highest possible score is 10.

Apgar scores are retained as reported by the data source for records that indicate a hospital birth. A hospital birth is defined as any diagnosis in the range of V3000 to V3901 with the last two digits of "00" or "01" and the patient is not transferred from another acute care hospital or health care facility. Values outside the range of 0 to 10 are set to invalid (.A). The Apgar score is set to missing (.) on non-birth records.

 
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Uniform Values
 
VariableDescriptionValueValue Description
APGAR5Five-minute APGAR score0-10APGAR score
.Missing
.AInvalid
 
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State Specific Notes

New Jersey

APGAR5 was discontinued in 2008

New Jersey supplies one character field, APGAR, that contains the five-minute APGAR score (APGAR5).


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Internet Citation: HCUP Central Distributor SID Description of Data Elements - All States. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). August 2008. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/siddistnote.jsp?var=apgar5.
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