The Oregon Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program obtains calendar year inpatient hospitalization data annually. These data are accessed by the Oregon EPHT Program through an agreement between the Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS) and the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS). Further information on OAHHS is located at <http://www.oahhs.org>.
Basic data verification procedures are completed by OAHHS on a regular basis. At this time ODPE does not have unique patient identifiers in the hospital inpatient dataset.
Oregon Institutional Review Board information is available at: <http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/irb/index.shtml>. The Oregon Administrative, Technical, and Physical Safeguards Policy is located at <http://www.dhs.state.or.us/policy/admin/privacy/100_005.htm>
Data may only be used in the manner specified in the data request/IRB proposal. Data will not be released, furnished, disclosed, published, or otherwise disseminated to any person except for employees under supervision of data requestor, who has agreed in writing to comply with these conditions. If these data are linked with other records or databases, use of the resulting linked data base must comply with conditions of the data use agreement.
Health Outcome ID, State, County, Admission Year, Admission Month, Age Group, Sex, Transfer Exclusion, Transfer Method
For access to restricted or secure data please see Access Constraints section for release of restricted data.