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About the National Data
Data
Data Sources: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (HCUP-NIS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); Population Estimates, Census
Baseline: 293.3 hospital admissions for diabetes per 100,000 adults aged 65 years and over occurred in 2016
Target: 264 per 100,000
Exclusions from the numerator include transfers from another hospital, from skilled nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities, from other healthcare facilities; and missing on gender, age, quarter, year and principal diagnosis.
Methodology
Methodology notes
Discharges that meet the inclusion and exclusion rules for the numerator in more than one of the above Prevention Quality Indicators are counted only once in the numerator.