Reporting Status
Statistics on Hospital Discharges
Technical Updates
An update has been released for the third quarter 2016 Inpatient Status Reports. The facilities listed in the update were assigned an erroneous status. The update contains the correct reporting status for each facility.
- Third quarter, 2016 - Update in Excel form
An update has been released for the third quarter 2012 file. The records identified in the update are duplications of Outpatient claims and should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 3 2012 Inpatient Public Use Data File (PUDF).
- Third quarter, 2012 - Update in Excel form
Fourth quarter 2011 Inpatient computer disks (4Q2011 Inpatient CD) did not include the Facility Type files. December 17, 2012.
Records for additional discharges in Quarter 2, 2010 have been found to be duplicated in the data for Quarter 3, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 3 Public Use Data File (PUDF). September 7, 2011.
- Third quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format
An update has been released for the third quarter 2010 charges file. The records identified in the update do not include charges and should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 3 2010 Public Use Data File (PUDF).
Records for additional discharges in Quarter 1, 2010 have been found to be duplicated in the data for Quarter 2, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 2 Public Use Data File (PUDF). September 7, 2011.
- Second quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format
An update has been released for the second quarter 2010 charges file. The records identified in the update do not include charges and should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 2 2010 Public Use Data File (PUDF).
- Second quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format
Charges records for some discharges were inadvertently omitted from the Second quarter 2010 PUDF. These records should be added to your copy of the Quarter 2 2010 Public Use Data File (PUDF).
Records for additional discharges in Quarter 4, 2009 have been found to be duplicated in the data for Quarter 1, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 1 Public Use Data File (PUDF). August 19, 2011.
Records for some discharges in Quarter 4, 2009 were inadvertently duplicated in the data for Quarter 1, 2010. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 1 Public Use Data File (PUDF). May 18, 2011.
- First quarter, 2010 - Update in Excel format
Records for some discharges in Quarter 1, 2009 were inadvertently duplicated in the data for Quarter 2, 2009. The following update includes the Record ID for those duplicate records that should be deleted from your copy of the Quarter 2 Public Use Data File (PUDF). September 9, 2010.
- Second quarter, 2009 - Update in Excel format
Updates to correct missing uniform physician identifiers have been released for the second, third and fourth quarter 2007 Public Use Data Files (PUDF) and the first, second and third quarter 2008 PUDF. The updates include uniform identifiers for the Attending Physician and Operating Physician fields, ATTENDING_PHYSICIAN_UNIF_ID and OPERATING_PHYSICIAN_UNIF_ID, that were set to missing in the original files. Use the update to correct your copy of the PUDF files. For more information please contact THCIC Staff.
- Second quarter, 2007 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- Third quarter, 2007 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- Fourth quarter, 2007 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- First quarter, 2008 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- Second quarter, 2008 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
- Third quarter, 2008 Fixed-length format, Tab-delimited format
An update has been released for the second quarter 2006 Public Use Data File (PUDF). It updates county codes, ZIP codes and Public Health Regions that were set to missing in the original file. Use the update to correct your copy of the PUDF. For more information, please contact THCIC Staff.
An update has been released for the third quarter 2004 Public Use Data File (PUDF). The update includes those records for which the 3M APR-DRG grouping was corrected. This correction was necessitated because some records were not grouped with Version 20 of the APR-DRG Grouper. The files include the Record ID and four additional data elements: APR-DRG code, APR-MDC, Severity of Illness, and Risk of Mortality. Use the update to correct your copy of the PUDF.
Updates have been released for the 2003 PUDF. The updates include Patient Status codes for those records where the patient status was incorrectly indicated as invalid. The files contain the 12-digit Encounter ID and the 2-digit Patient Status Code. Use the files to update your copy of the PUDF. September 23, 2005
The User Manuals for 1999, 2000 and 2001 have been updated to correctly document the data field ADMIT WEEKDAY. The values for this data field should be interpreted as:
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Wednesday
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
