Central Distributor SID: Description of Data Elements

INTENSIVECARE - Indicator of type of intensive care received by patient

Documentation Sections:

General Notes

Uniform Values

State Specific Notes

General Notes

IntensiveCare is retained as reported by data source with two exceptions. Any source-specific value for "unknown" is recoded to missing (.), and invalid characters such as negative values are set to invalid (.A).

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Uniform Values

Variable Description Value Value Description INTENSIVECARE Indicator of type of intensive care received by patient n(n) State specific coding - See the "State Specific Notes" section for details

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State Specific Notes

Nevada Nevada discontinued the INTENSIVECARE code and stopped providing it in 2011. Nevada provided two intensive care codes from 2008 through 2010. During the HCUP processing, 0 or 99 were assigned to each code. Value Description 0 No Intensive Care 99 Intensive Care Prior to 2008, in Nevada, IntensiveCare was coded as: Value Description 0 No Intensive Care 1 Neonatal ICU 2 Surgical/Medical 3 Pediatric 4 Psychiatric 5 Burn Care 6 Trauma 7 General/Post ICU 8 Heart Transplant 9 General / Mycardial Infarction / Pulmonary Care/Post CCU/Other Coronary Care . Missing .A Invalid

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