Objectives-Objective-This report demonstrates the use of linked National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS) and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administrative data to examine demographic characteristics and maternal health outcomes among both patients who received and did not receive housing assistance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective-This report provides a descriptive analysis of a sample of adult patients who visited the emergency department (ED) for nonfatal opioid overdose (NOO), using restricted-use 2016 National Hospital Care Survey data linked to the 2016-2017 National Death Index and the 2016-2017 Drug-Involved Mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective-This report demonstrates the ability of the National Hospital Care Survey (NHCS) to examine delivery hospitalizations involving severe maternal morbidity (SMM). These data are unweighted and not nationally representative, so the results are intended to illustrate the unique capability of NHCS to track patients across hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits rather than provide nationally representative estimates of these outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Hypoglycemia-related emergency department (ED) or hospital use among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) is clinically significant and possibly preventable.
Objective: To develop and validate a tool to categorize risk of hypoglycemic-related utilization in patients with T2D.
Design, Setting, And Participants: Using recursive partitioning with a split-sample design, we created a classification tree based on potential predictors of hypoglycemia-related ED or hospital use.