Archive for the ‘SAS’ Category

Maternal Quality Indicators

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

The Maternal Quality Indicators group has been kind enough to annotate and share their SAS code for delivery route, cesarean indication, delivery risk group and delivery outcomes from inpatient delivery records.  See below for an excerpt from the SAS program introduction.  Click this link for the entire program and introduction: mqi_codes_annotated-071509

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* Copyright information: The Maternal Quality Indicators (MQI) Group,
Moshe Fridman, PhD
Kimberly Gregory, MD, MPH
Lisa Korst, MD, PhD
Michael Lu, MD, MPH ;
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* Title: MQI SAS Code for delivery route, cesarean indication,
* delivery risk group and delivery outcomes.
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* Description:
* Define variables for delivery route, cesarean indication,
* delivery risk group and delivery outcomes from inpatient
* delivery records. Uses ICD9 diagnosis and procedure codes from
* administrative hospital discharge data.

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Health-related SAS programs

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

You can find many interesting SAS programs from the University of Manitoba Centre for Health Policy here.

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NS-CH and NS-CSHCN SAS/SPSS codebooks

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Here is a link to a page with SPSS and SAS codebooks for the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (click).

And here is a link to a page with a SAS codebook for the National Survey of Children’s Health (click).

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National birth data files and programs

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

Although there are several good online query systems (e.g. NCHS and MOD), here is one site I’ve found useful for downloading programs related to formatting the NCHS birth data files.

National Bureau of Economic Research
1968-2005 U.S. birth data files from NCHS, but with some formatting done and input programs available. Many other related documents available on this page. A shorter range of years of data files are available for the territories.

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AHRQ Quality Indicators

Friday, March 28th, 2008

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) are measures of health care quality that make use of readily available hospital inpatient administrative data.  SAS and Windows programs are available on the AHRQ QI website (click).

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NCHS Birth Data Programs

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Here are some useful SAS programs I received today from Joyce Martin at the National Center for Health Statistics. Please contact her with any questions at 301-458-4362 or jcm9@cdc.gov.

New Format Gestational Age

Old Format Gestational Age

Month Prenatal Care Began (2003 revised certificate only)

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