Admitted Patient Data Collection Variable information – Variable (variable name in Description/Notes Comments data) Hospital type (hospital_type) Flag to indicate if 1=Public hospital facility is public or 2=Private hospital private. Acute Hospital Flag Indicates whether Formerly known as ‘acuteflg’ (acute_flag) or not the patient received the service at an acute facility. This is one of the variables required in order to identify services provided in an acute hospital. Age (age_recode) The age in years of Age has been re-coded, using the SAS Formerly known as ‘yrdiff’ ‘age’. the patient derived function that returns the difference in years from subtracting between birth date (from STAY table) and the date of birth episode start date. from the date of admission.
Admitted Patient Data Collection – Variable information Variable (variable name in data) Description/Notes Comments Hospital type (hospital_type) Flag to indicate if facility is public or private. 1=Public hospital 2=Private hospital Acute Hospital Flag (acute_flag) Indicates whether or not the patient received the service at an acute facility. This is one of the variables required in order to identify services provided in an acute hospital. Formerly known as ‘acuteflg’ Age (age_recode) The age in years of the patient derived from subtracting the date of birth from the date of admission. Age has been re-coded, using the ‘yrdiff’ SAS function that returns the difference in years between birth date (from STAY table) and episode start date. Formerly known as ‘age’.