In line graphs of discharge counts by quarter, discharge counts smaller than 10 are excluded from the graphs and left blank. In line graphs of average length of stay by quarter, average lengths of stay are excluded from the graphs and left blank if there were fewer than 5 discharges in that quarter.
In graphs of discharge counts by payer, payer categories with small discharge counts are combined into an All additional payers category to prevent the disclosure of counts smaller than 10.
In the Diagnoses: Deliveries tabs, some hospitals have only Medicaid and All additional payers as payer categories. In these cases, either the count of commercial deliveries or the combined count of other coverage, uninsured, and Medicare deliveries is smaller than 10, so deliveries for all payers other than Medicaid have been included in All additional payers to prevent the disclosure of counts smaller than 10.
In the Diagnoses: Deliveries tabs, if counts of deliveries for Medicaid, commercial, and/or all additional payers are smaller than 10 at a particular hospital, then counts of deliveries are not disaggregated by payer in order to prevent the disclosure of counts smaller than 10. Total delivery counts for these hospitals are presented as All payers combined. Because total delivery counts are not disaggregated by payer for these hospitals, these hospitals are excluded from the graph of delivery percent by hospital and payer on the tab Deliveries: all hospitals.
Similarly, in the
Deliveries: hospital trends tab, if counts of either C-section or vaginal deliveries are smaller than 10 at a particular hospital in a particular year, then counts of deliveries are not disaggregated by delivery type in order to prevent the disclosure of counts smaller than 10. Total delivery counts for these hospitals and years are presented as All deliveries combined.
In the Diagnoses: Mental health + SUD by hospital tab, hospitals with fewer than 10 discharges with mental health or SUD diagnoses for the selected diagnosis level (primary diagnosis or all diagnoses on the discharge record) are excluded from the discharge count and percent graphs.
Legacy Unity Behavioral Health, a specialty psychiatric hospital, is excluded from the Diagnoses: Mental health + SUD by hospital tab because nearly all discharges from this hospital involve mental health or substance use disorder diagnoses.
In the Length of stay: By hospital tab, discharge counts smaller than 10 are excluded from the table and tooltips and left blank. To prevent back-calculation, the next smallest discharge count for that particular hospital is also excluded and left blank.
In the ED utilization tabs, average admissions smaller than 10 are labeled as 1-9.