State Ambulatory Surgery Databases
Record Type
DataSet
Source
Agency For Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Title Acronym
SASD
Source URL
Description
The SASD contain the ambulatory surgery encounter abstracts in participating States, translated into a uniform format to facilitate multi-state comparisons and analyses. <br> All of the databases include abstracts from hospital-affiliated ambulatory surgery sites. Some contain the universe of ambulatory surgery encounter abstracts for that State, including records from both hospital-affiliated and freestanding surgery centers. Composition and completeness of data files may vary from State to State. <br> The SASD contain a core set of clinical and non-clinical information on all patients, regardless of payer, including persons covered by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and the uninsured. <br> In addition to the core set of uniform data elements common to all SASD, some include other elements, such as the patient's race.
MEDLINE Search Strategy
Keywords
Administrative data; public use data files; public use files; States; pharmacoeconomics
Data Format
SASD data set can be run on desktop computers with a CD-ROM reader, and comes in ASCII format.
Geographic Region
Eighteen States now participate in the SASD: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin.
Purpose
The State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD) are a powerful set of databases, from data organizations in 18 participating States, that capture surgeries performed on the same day in which patients are admitted and released.
Record Originator
NLM/crs
Related Titles
Restrictions
Access to the files is open to all users who sign a Data Use Agreement. Users must agree to use the database for research and statistical purposes only and to make no attempts to identify individuals. Identities of institutions are available only for data sources that already make that information public or agree to its release. For these institutions and for research purposes only, linkage is possible to data from the Annual Survey of the American Hospital Association.
Special Software
Statistical software package such as SAS or SPSS is needed analytic purposes. SAS and SPSS users are provided programs for converting ASCII files.
Unit of Analysis
hospital discharge record
Variables
The SASD contain a core set of clinical and non-clinical information on all patients, regardless of payer, including persons covered by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and the uninsured. In addition to the core set of uniform data elements common to all SASD, some include other elements, such as the patient's race.
Vendors
Name: HCUP Central Distributor: Social and Scientific Systems, Inc.
Organization Name:
Phone Number: (866)556-4287
Fax Number: (301)986-8051
Email: hcup@s-3.com
Address 1: QualityMetric Incorporated
Address 2: 640 George Washington Highway
City: Lincoln
State: RI
Zip Code: 02865
Organization Name:
Phone Number: (866)556-4287
Fax Number: (301)986-8051
Email: hcup@s-3.com
Address 1: QualityMetric Incorporated
Address 2: 640 George Washington Highway
City: Lincoln
State: RI
Zip Code: 02865
Years of Availability
1997-2001
UI
1895
Date Revised
June 2, 2018, 11:43 a.m.