Estimating state-specific population-based hospitalization rates from in-state hospital discharge data.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop weights to estimate state population-based hospitalization rates for all residents of a state using only data from in-state hospitals which exclude residents treated in other states.

Data sources and study setting

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), State Inpatient Databases (SID), 2018-2019, 47 states+DC.

Study design

We identified characteristics for patients hospitalized in each state differentiating movers (discharges for patients hospitalized outside state of residence) from stayers (discharges for patients hospitalized in state of residence) and created weights based on 2018 data informed by these characteristics. We calculated standard errors using a sampling framework and compared wei

SUBMITTER: Roemer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10622291 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature