Hospital originated infections and mishaps

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NPR and other news organizations are citing a dataset analyzed by Kaiser from the CDC:

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Source: Kaiser Health News analysis of CDC data Get the data

Would anyone know where the raw data set comes from?

I am interested in more details, especially hospital names, type of incidents, and location (city, state, zip code, etc).

Mark Silverberg · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-22 16:08:50Z

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The data referenced appears to be an aggregation of Hospital Acquired Infections which are part of the CMS Hospital Compare family of data sets.

There are a number of ways to access the raw data which are listed at http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Resources/Download-Data.html including zipped archives of CSVs, APIs at data.medicare.gov, and more.

answered Oct 22 '14 at 16:08

Mark Silverberg

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Thanks for the last link. Seems like SCORE column is useful, along with Compared with National. How does one know what the range of SCORE is and what the values mean? Seems like the SCORE value is based on each row. – Sun Oct 22 '14 at 16:21
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The score definitely depends o the measure/measure ID which are listed and sort of explained at medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/Measures-Displayed.html. Some measures may have normal ranges and standard while others will not. Welcome to healthcare quality measures ;) – Mark Silverberg Oct 22 '14 at 16:26

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