opened on:  15 Nov 2016, 23:35:20

_dta:
  1.  vwhqi_readm_reduction set up by Jean Roth , jroth@nber.org , 15 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/2016/May/HOSArchive_20160504.zip

> n.dta
  obs:        16,695                          
 vars:            14                          15 Nov 2016 23:35
 size:     2,838,150                          (_dta has notes)
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              storage   display    value
variable name   type    format     label      variable label
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provider        str6    %9s                   Provider Number
hospname        str50   %50s                  Hospital Name
state           str2    %9s                   State
measurename     str22   %22s                  Measure Name
disnum          str13   %13s                  Number of Discharges
footnote        byte    %8.0g                 Footnote
readratexc      str13   %13s                  Excess Readmission Ratio
readratp        str13   %13s                  Predicted Readmission Rate
readratexp      str13   %13s                  Expected Readmission Rate
readnum         str17   %17s                  Number of Readmissions
startdate       byte    %td                   Start Date
startdatetime   str9    %9s                   Start Date
enddate         byte    %td                   End Date
enddatetime     str9    %9s                   End Date
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Sorted by: provider