Methods
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), sponsored by The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ), includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States of America. HCUP creates the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) to help conduct national and regional analyses of inpatient care. Using the NIS (2013), we performed a retrospective cohort study that involved patients who were admitted and treated for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy. To identify these patients we used ICD-9-CM principal diagnosis code 425.11. Using statistical analysis we compared the demographics, geographical distribution and the cost of treating these patients. Unweighted, HCUP contains data from more than 7 million hospital stays each year. Weighted, it estimates more than 36 million hospitalizations nationally taken from more than 4,000 HCUP participating hospitals.
Methods
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), sponsored by The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ), includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States of America. HCUP creates the National Inpatient Sample (NIS) to help conduct national and regional analyses of inpatient care. Using the NIS (2013), we performed a retrospective cohort study that involved patients who were admitted and treated for Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy. To identify these patients we used ICD-9-CM principal diagnosis code 425.11. Using statistical analysis we compared the demographics, geographical distribution and the cost of treating these patients. Unweighted, HCUP contains data from more than 7 million hospital stays each year. Weighted, it estimates more than 36 million hospitalizations nationally taken from more than 4,000 HCUP participating hospitals.
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