Acute Care Hospital Transfers by Major Diagnostic Category (MDC)

The three datasets (i.e., Transfer-Encounters, Transfer-Outcomes, Transfer-Locations) provide the number of hospital transfers and Major Diagnostic Categories (MDCs). The Transfer-Encounters Dataset provides transfer counts by patient characteristics (i.e., Race/Ethnicity, Language Group, Expected Payer, Age Group and Assigned Sex at Birth) for each MDC. The Transfer-Outcomes shows the transfer outcomes (i.e., Median Length of Stay, Percent of Leaving Against Medical Advice and Percent of Inpatient Death) by MDC. The Transfer-Location dataset shows the locations of Acute Care Hospitals which received at least 25 transfers by MDC.

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Contact Email [email protected]
Program Department of Health Care Access and Information, Healthcare Analytics Branch
Homepage URL https://hcai.ca.gov/visualizations/
Temporal Coverage

January 2021 - December 2021, updated on an annual basis
Spatial/Geographic Coverage

Statewide
Geographic Granularity Statewide
Language English (EN)
Frequency Annually
De-Identification Method

Any MDC per hospital grouping with less than 11 encounters has a ‘Less than 11’ label
Source Link https://hcai.ca.gov/data-and-reports/healthcare-utilization/ or https://hcai.ca.gov/visualizations/
Data Collection Tool

https://hcai.ca.gov/data-and-reports/submit-data/patient-data/
License Terms of Use
Limitations Use of this data is subject to the CHHS Terms of Use and any copyright and proprietary notices incorporated in or accompanying the individual files.
Citation

HCAI Patient Discharge Data (PDD)
Last Updated January 8, 2024, 23:34 (UTC)