On August 1, 2001, Anne Elixhauser, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), made a presentation during the Web-assisted teleconference, The Next Revolution: The Role of Informatics in Improving Health Care entitled "HCUPnet: Easy Access to Hospital Statistics On-Line."
This is the text version of Dr. Elixhauser's slide presentation. Select to access the PowerPoint® slides (293 KB).
Anne Elixhauser, Ph.D.
This slide displays the welcome screen for HCUPnet. It includes a description of the program, and a button to click to start HCUPnet.
This slide features the page on the HCUPnet site that allows visitors to search and select databases. There are 5 tabs that visitors can click on: Instant Tables, National Statistics, Hospital Stays for Children Only, Trends, and State Statistics.
This slide displays the HCUPnet Web page that allows visitors to search national statistics for diagnoses or procedures. The text on the screen is as follows:
Which of the following are you interested in? [Select One]
If you are choosing diagnoses or procedures, which would you like to do? [Select One]
On the bottom of the screen there are navigation buttons that allow the visitor to go "back," "next," to "help," or "HCUPnet Home."
This slide displays another search option within the National Statistics database, the Single-Level Clinical Classifications Software (CCS) Procedure Category Selection, in which a visitor can select specific body systems.
This slide features a subsequent National Statistics page in which a visitor can search for procedure categories.
This page allows visitors to search a specific procedure for information on Length of Stay, Total Charges, In-hospital deaths, Discharge Status, Aggregate Charges, and Number of Discharges.
This slide displays the HCUPnet Web page that allows visitors to compare patient characteristics by Age, Sex, Primary Payer, and Income.
This slide features a picture of the HCUPnet Web page that allows visitors to compare Hospital Characteristics by Ownership, Teaching Status, Location, Bedsize and Region.
This slide illustrates what the results of an HCUPnet search might look like. For example, for heart valve procedures, a table compares total number of discharges and in-hospital deaths among hospitals differentiated by owner and teaching status.
http://www.ahcpr.gov/data/hcup/hcupnet.htm
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Current as of August 2001
Internet Citation:
Elixhauser, E. HCUPnet: Easy Access to Hospital Statistics On-Line. Slide Presentation (Text Version) presented at The Next Revolution: The Role of Informatics in Improving Health Care, Web-Assisted teleconference, August 1, 2001. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ulp/informat/elixhaustxt.htm
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