_dta: 1. vwhqi_readm_reduction set up by Jean Roth , jroth@nber.org , 16 Nov 2016 2. Source Database File: Hospital.mdb 3. Source Page: https://data.medicare.gov/data/archives/hospital-compare 4. Source File URL: medicare.gov/download/HospitalCompare/2013/July/HOSArchive_20130701.zip obs: 10,311 vars: 14 16 Nov 2016 05:29 size: 1,979,712 (_dta has notes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- storage display value variable name type format label variable label ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- provider str6 %9s Provider Number hospname str87 %87s Hospital Name state str2 %9s State measurename str53 %53s Measure Name disnum int %8.0g Number of Discharges footnote byte %8.0g Footnote readratexc str6 %9s Excess Readmission Ratio readratp str4 %9s Predicted Readmission Rate readratexp str4 %9s Expected Readmission Rate readnum str4 %9s Number of Readmissions startdate int %td Start Date startdatetime str8 %9s Start Date enddate long %td End Date enddatetime str9 %9s End Date ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorted by: provider