The Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Program is the first national effort to create a network to provide the United States with standardized data integrated from multiple hazard, exposure, and health effects information systems. Limited Asthma and Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction) Hospitalization Data from the Oregon Hospital Discharge Database are available on the National EPHT Network and on the Oregon EPHT website at http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/epht. The Oregon EPHT Hospitalization dataset contains information about hospitalizations with a primary diagnosis of asthma (ICD-9 Code 493) and acute myocardial infarction (ICD-9 Code 410). Variables include sex, age group, and payor, for hospitalizations since 2000, by state, county, and year of admission. Data from the EPHT network may be used to attempt to quantify the magnitude of environmental health problems, detect unusual trends and occurrences, document the distribution and spread of a hazard or health event, identify populations at risk, plan and evaluate protective and preventive measures, facilitate research, and detect the results of changes in health practices. The Oregon EPHT Program is part of a National EPHT Network sponsored by the CDC. The Oregon EPHT Program resides in the Toxicology, Assessment, and Tracking Section of the Office of Environmental Public Heath (OEPH) which is in the Public Health Division of the Department of Human Services (DHS).
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The limited de-identified and aggregated Asthma and Heart Attack (Myocardial Infarction) dataset available on the Oregon EPHT website contains the following variables:
Diagnosis
Asthma (ICD-9 493)
Heart Attack (Acute Myocardial Infarction ICD-9 410)
Sex
Age Group
Payer
State
County
Year of Admission
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The purpose of the Oregon EPHT Program is to provide scientific information from a web-based network of hazard, exposure, and health effect data to support actions that improve the health of communities. By bringing together, and standardizing, local, state, and national data sources of environmental and health information, scientists, policymakers, and the public will be able to more effectively address fundamental questions about relationships between environmental exposures and health effects.
The Hospital Discharge Index (HDI) provides a central database of all Oregon hospital discharges for the purposes of public health surveillance and hospital policy analysis. HDI data is collected by the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (OAHHS) and is comprised of information on hospital discharges for the entire State of Oregon. Discharge data is currently available in a central repository for the years since 1995. Data consist primarily of principal and secondary diagnoses and procedures, hospital IDs, length of stay, and limited demographic information. Information on emergency room visits, urgent care, outpatient surgery, and clinic visits are excluded from this database. HDI data is owned by the OAHHA. HDI data is propriety and not available for unauthorized access.
Data is provided by the OAHHS to the Oregon Department of Human Services, Public Health Division. The data is located in a central database for access by authorized employees. Individual identifiers are removed and demographic information such as race and ethnicity is not included. Oregon EPHT aggregates the data by age group, county, and year. Suppression rules are used to prevent specific data from being used to identify a particular individual. Suppression rules only apply to certain cells depending on time resolution, query and field (sensitive or not). Suppression applies if data are aggregated over less than 3 years (i.e., Most Recent Year OR Annual Trend over years OR Multiple Year Summary with Year Count <3) and the cell contains data from one of the following queries and specific subcategories from the listed fields. For Asthma and Heart Attack Hospitalization data suppression rules will be applied to all selections. Data will not be shown (count, rate, %) for a cell if the count for the cell (or numerator for rate) is less than 11 or the denominator population is less than 51. Rate estimations based on small case counts may be unstable. Independently of the user's selections, rates are flagged if based on a count (numerator) of less than 10.
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OAHHS, the Oregon Public Health Divsision, and EPHT make no representation or warranties regarding the accuracy or validity of data.
OAHHS, the Oregon Public Health Division, and EPHT make no representation or warranties regarding the completeness of data.
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In preparation of this data, every effort has been made to offer the most current, correct, complete and clearly expressed information possible. However, some errors in the data and information may exist. In particular, but without limitation, the OAHHS, the Oregon Public Health Division and the EPHT Program disclaim any liability for compilation and typographical errors and accuracy of the information that may be contained in the data and information. The EPHT Program reserves the right to make changes to the data at any time without notice
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