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About the National Data
Data
Data Sources: Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project - National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (HCUP-NIS), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ); Population Estimates, Census
Baseline: 293.3 hospital admissions for diabetes per 100,000 adults aged 65 years and over occurred in 2016
Target: 264 per 100,000
Numerator
Number of discharges for patients aged 65 years and over, with a principal ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for diabetes short-term complications (ketoacidosis, hyperosmolarity, or coma); or diabetes long-term complications (renal, eye, neurological, circulatory, or complications not otherwise specified); or uncontrolled diabetes (admissions for a principal diagnosis of diabetes without mention of short-term or long-term complications); or lower extremities amputations for patients with diabetes.
Exclusions from the numerator include transfers from another hospital, from skilled nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities, from other healthcare facilities; and missing on gender, age, quarter, year and principal diagnosis.
Exclusions from the numerator include transfers from another hospital, from skilled nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities, from other healthcare facilities; and missing on gender, age, quarter, year and principal diagnosis.
Denominator
Number of adults aged 65 and over.
Target-setting method
Percent improvement
Target-setting method details
10 percent improvement from the baseline.
Target-setting method justification
Trend data were not available for this objective. A 10 percent improvement from the baseline was used to calculate a target. This method was used because it was a statistically significant improvement from the baseline.
Methodology
Methodology notes
Discharges that meet the inclusion and exclusion rules for the numerator in more than one of the above Prevention Quality Indicators are counted only once in the numerator.
