I had a reference question this week asking for the current
national Length-of-Stay averages for Hip and Knee Replacements,
respectively. Health Stats questions are often challenging and I’m
left wondering where to look, but with some direction from a few helpful
MedLibbers (Mark Vrabel at The Oncology Nursing Society and Anne Woznica at The
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons), I re-discovered H-CUPnet
this week.
What is it?
“H-CUPnet is a free online query system based on data from
the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). It provides access to
health statistics and information on hospital inpatient and emergency
department utilization.”
If you need stats on hospital discharges or length of stays
by specific diagnoses or procedures, this tool is just the thing!
As the name suggests, you can also pull cost numbers as
well. You can even choose patient characteristics such as
age, gender, insurance status, and location – Don’t worry : Patient data
is entirely anonymous. Hospital Characteristics can also be scoped to
hospital ownership, location, and/or bedsize so you can more easily see how
YOUR hospital(s) measure up.
In order to help myself remember how I got the answer, I
made a little Screencast video to explain how to generate the most useful
report for this particular Length-of-Stay question. I thought
it might be helpful for my WHSLA colleagues as well :
Using H-CUPnet to Find Length-of-Stay Stats
[Screencast]
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