Data Set Name: NIS_2015_CORE                   
Number of Observations: 7153989
Total Record Length: 86
Total Number of Data Elements: 24


Columns   Description
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 1-  3    Database name
 5-  8    Discharge year of data
10- 35    File name
37- 39    Data element number
41- 69    Data element name
71- 73    Starting column of data element in ASCII file
75- 77    Ending column of data element in ASCII file
79- 79    Non-zero number of digits after decimal point for numeric data element
81- 84    Data element type (Num=numeric; Char=character)
86-185    Data element label


NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core                1 AGE                             1   3   Num  Age in years at admission
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core                2 AGE_NEONATE                     4   5   Num  Neonatal age (first 28 days after birth) indicator
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core                3 AMONTH                          6   7   Num  Admission month
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core                4 AWEEKEND                        8   9   Num  Admission day is a weekend
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core                5 DIED                           10  11   Num  Died during hospitalization
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core                6 DISCWT                         12  22 7 Num  NIS discharge weight
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core                7 DISPUNIFORM                    23  24   Num  Disposition of patient (uniform)
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core                8 DQTR                           25  26   Num  Discharge quarter
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core                9 ELECTIVE                       27  28   Num  Elective versus non-elective admission
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               10 FEMALE                         29  30   Num  Indicator of sex
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               11 HCUP_ED                        31  33   Num  HCUP Emergency Department service indicator
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               12 HOSP_DIVISION                  34  35   Num  Census Division of hospital
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               13 HOSP_NIS                       36  40   Num  NIS hospital number
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               14 KEY_NIS                        41  50   Num  NIS record number
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               15 LOS                            51  55   Num  Length of stay (cleaned)
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               16 NIS_STRATUM                    56  59   Num  NIS hospital stratum
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               17 PAY1                           60  61   Num  Primary expected payer (uniform)
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               18 PL_NCHS                        62  64   Num  Patient Location: NCHS Urban-Rural Code
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               19 RACE                           65  66   Num  Race (uniform)
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               20 TOTCHG                         67  76   Num  Total charges (cleaned)
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               21 TRAN_IN                        77  78   Num  Transfer in indicator
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               22 TRAN_OUT                       79  80   Num  Transfer out indicator
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               23 YEAR                           81  84   Num  Calendar year
NIS 2015 NIS_2015_Core               24 ZIPINC_QRTL                    85  86   Num  Median household income national quartile for patient ZIP Code