| AGE - Age in years at admission |
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| General Notes |
| Uniform Values |
| State Specific Notes |
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Age in years (AGE) is calculated from the birth date (DOB) and the admission date (ADATE) in the HCUP State databases with the few exceptions listed below. Ages over 89 are aggregated into a single category of 90 years or older in the HCUP nationwide databases starting in data year 2012. Exceptions for assigning AGE:
When processing the 1996 HCUP data, no adjustment was made for the leap year when age was calculated from date of birth and admission date. This caused infants admitted on the day before their first birthday to have AGE=1 instead of AGE. |
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Arizona The reported age was not used when AGE could not be calculated because Arizona supplied age at discharge. Beginning with 2005, source AGE is no longer supplied. California Central Distributor only - because of confidentiality restrictions, age in years (AGE) is suppressed or offset by a few years on some records. Because California did not provide an admission date, the date of service was used to calculate age. Iowa AGE may differ by one year from the actual age. When only the year of birth is available, Iowa assigns the day and month of birth to '01', which may cause the age calculated from birth date to be one year less than the actual age. Maine Starting with Version 3 of the 2012 SASD and SEDD (created in 2017), the patient age (AGE) is set to 90 for patients age 90 years and older. Maryland Beginning in 2013, the supplied age in years is used when the data element cannot be calculated. Nevada For discharges less than 90 years old, if the age could not be calculated from dates, then the reported age was used to assign AGE. For discharges that are 90 or older, only the calculated age could be used to assign AGE because Nevada sets age in years to 90 for all discharges age 90 and above. New York Beginning with the 2008 data, the HCUP data element AGE is missing (.) for AIDS/HIV patients. New York identifies AIDS/HIV records by ICD-9-CM diagnosis code, DRG, or MS-DRG:
Please note that the admitting diagnosis is not retained in the HCUP databases prior to 2012. In the 1988-1997 HCUP New York databases, AGE could not be calculated because New York did not report full admission and birth dates. During HCUP processing, only the reported age in years could be used to assign AGE. Utah Beginning with the 2015 data, the HCUP data element AGE is set to missing (.) in the Central Distributor SEDD for records involving substance abuse or HIV infection. This was done at the request of the Utah Partner organization. Wisconsin Beginning in 2005, Wisconsin no longer codes ages greater than 96 to 96. Prior to 2005, only the calculated age could be used to assign AGE because Wisconsin groups ages greater than 96. AGE was calculated using the date of birth and date of principal procedure because the admission date is not provide by the state. |
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| Internet Citation: HCUP Central Distributor SEDD Description of Data Elements - All States. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). October 2024. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/vars/sedddistnote.jsp?var=age. |
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