Although both the confirmed case and hospitalization datasets identify week 39 as the cutoff week for the two waves, the estimates of turning points for each wave differ by about one week when using the two datasets.
We obtained 1997 hospitalization datasets for the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont from the Maine Health Care Finance Commission (Augusta), the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (Concord), and the Vermont Department of Health Burlingtonn), respectively.
The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health extracted the injury hospitalization dataset and de-identified before releasing it for this study.
Since New York City maintains its own hospitalization dataset and has unique sociodemographic characteristics, it was also excluded.
Compared to the original system, CCC v2 resulted in a 1.0% absolute (10% relative) increase in the number of patients identified as having a CCC in national hospitalization dataset, and a 0.4% absolute (24% relative) increase in a national emergency department dataset.
Cases were derived from the CCHCS hospitalization discharge dataset for the period July 1, 2010, through April 11 , 2013
In parallel, the discharge dataset of all hospitalization in Swiss hospitals maintained by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (Medizinische Statistik der Krankenhäuser) was modified and includes in its most recent version all necessary data for classification of diagnoses and procedures and DRG-grouping using the SwissDRG grouper.
Data elements available in the HCUP dataset included year of hospitalization, age when hospitalized, sex, state where hospitalization occurred, type of NTM infection (pulmonary, disseminated, cutaneous, unspecified, or other) and up to 29 possible secondary diagnoses.
Hospitalization Requirements (HR): This dataset includes state laws requiring facilities in which abortions are performed to be licensed hospitals.
Despite the lack of specific injury severity data in the NEISS dataset, using hospitalization as a proxy for severity, the vast majority of skateboarding-related injuries in the current study were not severe as they were able to be treated in the ED and not hospitalized (96.9%%).
Large national administrative health datasets document hospitalizations, outpatient encounters and emergency room visits for users of the health system [ 1].
