Source Files

The HCUP Kansas inpatient files were constructed from the Kansas Hospital Association inpatient discharge files.

Types of Facilities Included in the Files Provided to HCUP by the Partner

These data include inpatient discharge data from general acute care hospitals that are a member of the Kansas Hospital Association.

A comparison of the number of hospitals included in the SID and the number of hospitals reported in the AHA Annual Survey is available starting in data year 2010.

Hospitals do not always report data for a full calendar year. Some hospitals open or close during the year; other hospitals have technical problems that prevent them from reporting data for all months in a year.

Inclusion of Stays in Special Units

Kansas supplied discharges from special units within hospitals including psychiatric, rehabilitation, skilled nursing, intermediate care, other long-term care, sub-acute, swing-bed, and other unspecified inpatient units. These records can be identified with the HCUP variable HOSPITALUNIT.

Exclusion of Records During HCUP Data Processing

Records with a discharge disposition of "still a patient" and "admitted as an inpatient" were excluded from the HCUP Kansas inpatient data.