Hospital Inpatient - Characteristics by Patient County of Residence

This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The patient’s discharge disposition refers to where a patient is being discharged or transferred.

This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The expected payer is the entity or organization which is expected to pay or did pay the greatest share of the patient’s bill.

This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The patient’s sex is reported as male, female, other, or unknown

This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The MS-DRG (Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Group) is a system used to classify a hospital inpatient stay into one of over 750 groups; each discharge record in the same MS-DRG is expected to have a similar hospital resource use. MS-DRGs are assigned based upon the principal diagnosis, additional diagnoses, procedures, sex and discharge status.

This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC) are formed by dividing all possible principal diagnoses into 25 mutually exclusive diagnosis areas. The diagnoses in each MDC correspond to a single organ system or etiology and in general are associated with a particular medical specialty.

This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The Race Group is assigned based upon a combination of the Ethnicity and Race reported to HCAI.

This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The Admission Source is the site from which the patient originated.

This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The type of care refers to the licensure of the bed occupied by an inpatient (acute care, skilled nursing/intermediate care, psychiatric care, chemical dependency recovery care, and physical rehabilitation care).