While these summaries, some of which run to book length, are extremely useful, they often do not provide the information or the level of detail that you may need at any given time. Since we work with the complete survey data files, and not just the published summary tables, we can produce customized, detailed analyses that you won't find in NHDS or other publications.
Much more detail is available.
Please see the bottom of this page for a more complete listing of some of the data variables that we have. This is an approx 3 MB pdf file so it may take a while to download, depending on your connection speed. Released September 2001. The federal government classifies reasons for being in the hospital into about 500 categories, called Diagosis Related Groups or DRGs. If you're a hospital administrator or consultant, you know instantly what the most common DRGs are.