NYU Data Catalog

Alternate Title(s): SPARCS
Description: The Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) is a comprehensive data reporting system established in 1979 as a result of cooperation between the health care industry and the New York State government. SPARCS currently collects patient level detail on patient characteristics, diagnoses and treatments, services, and charges for every hospital discharge, ambulatory surgery patient,...
Subject: Health Care System
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Local Expert: Leslie R. Boyd

Tod Mijanovich

Alternate Title(s): SASD, HCUP SASD, State Ambulatory Surgery Databases, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases
Description: The State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases (SASD) are part of the family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The SASD are a set of databases that capture surgeries performed on the same day in which patients are admitted and released. The SASD contain more than 100 clinical and nonclinical variables abstracted from hospital discharge...
Subject: Health Care System

Quality of Health Care
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Local Expert: Danil Makarov

Leonardo Trasande

Saul Blecker

Alternate Title(s): ARIC
Authors: Christie Ballantyne

Lloyd Chambless

Josef Coresh

Matthew Davis

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Description: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study is a prospective longitudinal epidemiological study conducted in four communities: Forsyth County (North Carolina), Jackson (Mississippi), Minneapolis (Minnesota), and Washington County (Maryland). ARIC is designed to investigate the causes of atherosclerosis and its clinical outcomes, and variations in cardiovascular risk factors, medical care,...
Subject: Chronic Disease

Health Care System

Population Characteristics

Risk Factors
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Local Expert: Saul Blecker

NYU Dataset

Authors: Donna Shelley

Erin Rogers

Scott Sherman
Description: The Consortium of Hospitals Advancing Research on Tobacco (CHART) is a network of six projects and a coordinating center aimed at assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions initiated during hospitalizations and continued post-discharge. The CHART New York Smoking-Cessation Interventions for Urban Hospital Patients trial looked at the effectiveness of a pro-active,...
Subject: Health Care System

Health Status

Risk Factors
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NYU Dataset

Authors: Matthew T. Maurano

Sitharam Ramaswami

Paul Zappile

Dacia Dimartino

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Description: The dataset includes 864 genomic sequences obtained from COVID-19 patients aged 18 years old and above within the NYU Langone Health system between March 12 and May 10, 2020. Patients reflected the health system's catchment area (i.e., the greater New York City metropolitan area). rRNA-depleted total RNA was sequenced, underwent quality control, and analyzed to produce phylogenetic trees. Further...
Subject: COVID-19

Genomics

Infectious Disease

Risk Factors
Timeframe: 2020
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Alternate Title(s): NHS HES
Description: The National Health Service Hospital Episode Statistics (NHS HES) include over 1 billion medical records of patients who attended outpatient appointments, were seen at accident and emergency (A&E) departments, or were admitted to NHS hospitals in England. This data is collected and curated on a monthly basis and has been used for purposes such as research and service evaluation. HES consists of the...
Subject: Electronic Health Records

Health Care System

Quality of Health Care
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Local Expert: Simon A. Jones