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Hospital Inpatient - Characteristics by Patient County of Residence

Published by Department of Health Care Access and Information | State of California | Catalog Last Checked: November 28, 2025 at 07:18 PM | Dataset Last Updated: November 07, 2025 at 01:38 AM
This dataset contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The summary data includes discharge disposition, expected payer, sex, Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG), Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC), race group, admission source, and type of care.

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  • Hospital Inpatient Characteristics - Sex by Patient County of Residence

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  • Hospital Inpatient Characteristics – Admission Source by Patient County of Residence

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  • Hospital Inpatient Characteristics - MDC by Patient County of Residence

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  • Hospital Inpatient Characteristics – Race Group by Patient County of Residence

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  • Hospital Inpatient Characteristics – MS-DRG by Patient County of Residence

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  • Hospital Inpatient Characteristics – Type of Care by Patient County of Residence

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  • Hospital Inpatient Characteristics - Disposition by Patient County of Residence

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  • Hospital Inpatient Characteristics - Expected Payer by Patient County of Residence

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  • Hospital Inpatient - Notes

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  • All resource data

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description This dataset contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The summary data includes discharge disposition, expected payer, sex, Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Group (MS-DRG), Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC), race group, admission source, and type of care.
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    "description": "This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The Major Diagnostic Categories (MDC) are formed by dividing all possible principal diagnoses into 25 mutually exclusive diagnosis areas. The diagnoses in each MDC correspond to a single organ system or etiology and in general are associated with a particular medical specialty.",
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    "description": "This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The MS-DRG (Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Group) is a system used to classify a hospital inpatient stay into one of over 750 groups; each discharge record in the same MS-DRG is expected to have a similar hospital resource use. MS-DRGs are assigned based upon the principal diagnosis, additional diagnoses, procedures, sex and discharge status.",
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    "description": "This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The type of care refers to the licensure of the bed occupied by an inpatient (acute care, skilled nursing/intermediate care, psychiatric care, chemical dependency recovery care, and physical rehabilitation care).",
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    "description": "This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The patient’s discharge disposition refers to where a patient is being discharged or transferred.",
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    "description": "This data table contains annual hospital inpatient summary data based upon the Patient’s County of Residence. The expected payer is the entity or organization which is expected to pay or did pay the greatest share of the patient’s bill.",
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identifier 14993c29-d0fb-4b06-967a-ff484950dbab
issued 2018-04-10T16:42:04.937062
keyword 
[
  "MDC",
  "MS-DRG",
  "Medicare Severity-Diagnosis Related Group",
  "PDD",
  "department of health care access and information",
  "diagnosis code",
  "disposition",
  "expected payer",
  "external cause",
  "frequencies",
  "gender",
  "hcai",
  "hospital",
  "inpatient",
  "patient county",
  "procedure code",
  "race group",
  "sex",
  "source of admission",
  "type of care"
]
license http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
modified 2025-11-07T01:38:18.653296
publisher 
{
  "name": "Department of Health Care Access and Information",
  "@type": "org:Organization"
}
theme 
[
  "Health and Human Services"
]
title Hospital Inpatient - Characteristics by Patient County of Residence

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