The following source codes are included in the HCUP category "Another Type of Facility" (DISP=5):

• "Rehabilitation Facility"
• "Rehabilitation Unit of Hospital"
• "On-site Distinct Rehab Unit"
• "On-site Psych Unit"
• "On-site Sub-acute Facility", and
• "Other Sub-acute Facility".

DISP has a constant value for all records due to the definition of same-day surgery discharges in the New Jersey data. All patients who received same-day surgery services were discharged to home or self-care (DISP = 1).

In All Years

The source category "Psychiatric Care Facility" was recoded to the HCUP uniform category "Another Type of Facility" (DISP=5).

Plan of Care Completed

• Beginning in 1994, the source reports "Plan of Care Completed" as a separate category. This was recoded to the HCUP uniform category "Routine" (DISP=1).
• The source code was reassigned by New York to a new value on October 1, 1995. Due to an HCUP processing error, "Plan of Care Completed" was incorrectly mapped to the HCUP uniform category "Home Health Care" (DISP = 6) for discharges in January through September 1995.

Pre-Admission

• Beginning in 1995, the source reports "Pre-admission" as a separate category. This was recoded to the HCUP uniform category "Routine" (DISP=1).

Hospice

Beginning in October 1995, New York reports two new categories for discharge disposition:

• "Hospice - Medical Facility" which was recoded to the HCUP category "Another type of facility" (DISP=5), and
• "Hospice - Home" which was recoded to the HCUP category "Home Health Care" (DISP=6).

In addition to the usual categories coded under died (DISP = 20), the following dispositions are included:

• "Expired at home,"
• "Expired in a medical facility," and
• "Expired, place unknown."

Please use the 1997 data for DSHOSPID="408" with caution. Based on a cursory review of the hospital's data, the following problems were identified:

• the original discharge date field was shifted by one character causing most of the reported dates to be invalid. During HCUP processing, YEAR was assigned to 97 and DQTR and DDATE were assigned using the shifted position.
• DISP was missing (DISP = .) on 74% of the discharges, and
• the median total charge (TOTCHG) was $14.