Krislyn M Boggs, Maranatha M Teferi, Janice A Espinola, Ashley F Sullivan, Kohei Hasegawa, Kori S Zachrison, Margaret E Samuels-Kalow, Carlos A Camargo
INTRODUCTION: The American Hospital Association (AHA) has hospital-level data, while the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has patient-level data. Merging these with other distinct databases would permit analyses of hospital-based specialties, units, or departments, and patient outcomes. One distinct database is the National Emergency Department Inventory (NEDI), which contains information about all EDs in the United States. However, a challenge with merging these databases is that NEDI lists all US EDs individually, while the AHA and CMS group some EDs by hospital network...
October 27, 2020: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine