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California Public Patient Discharge Data, January - December, 1996 (M1305)

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title California Public Patient Discharge Data, January - December, 1996 (M1305)
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Y16T4I
 
Creator California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) collects inpatient data from licensed hospitals in california. The dataset consist of a record for each inpatient discharged from a California licensed hospital, including general acute care, acute psychiatric, chemical dependency recovery, and psychiatric health facilities. Items recorded include type of care, demographics (some items are masked to protect privacy and confidentiality), admission details, length of stay, source(s) of payment, diagnosis, conditions and procedures. Because of the amount of data, the data is divided into three separate files; Los Angeles County, Southern California, Northern California.
 
Subject Medicine, Health and Life Sciences
Social Sciences
Health Statistics
California
 
Language English
 
Contributor UCLA Social Science Data Archive
 
Type Administrative records