NJ EPHT Project Staff 20080721 NONE This dataset contains case counts of myocardial infarction inpatient hospitalizations and asthma hospitalizations among New Jersey residents for the years 2000-2006. These data are stratified by year and month of admission, county of residence, age and sex. This data set contributes to the Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. The EPHT cooperative agreement states that "by September 30, 2008 [all grantees must] track and make available core environmental health tracking measures on the State and National EPHT Network [including] data/information on key water contaminants, as defined through the Content workgroup process." The Content Workgroup Hospitalization Team identified health outcomes of concern for the national EPHT program, identified nationally consistent data sources, and developed nationally consistent indicators and measures. Hospitalization can be examined by year and age group at a county level. These data have been de-identified to protect patient confidentiality. 20000101 20051231 Data are complete through 2005 Complete Annually -75.559791000000004 -73.893980999999997 41.357427000000001 38.928767999999998 NONE heart attack cardiac cardiovascular asthma respiratory ICD-9-CM Myocardial infarction, MI, 493, 410, Asthma, 493.0, 493.1, 493.2, 493.3, 493.4, 493.5, 493.6, 493.7, 493.8, 493.9 FIPS 5-2 (State) New Jersey, NJ, 34 FIPS 6-4 (County) Atlantic, 34001, Bergen, 34003, Burlington, 34005, Camden, 34007, Cape May, 34009, Cumberland, 34011, Essex, 34013, Gloucester, 34015, Hudson, 34017, Hunterdon, 34019, Mercer, 34021, Middlesex, 34023, Monmouth, 34025, Morris, 34027, Ocean, 34029, Passaic, 34031, Salem, 34033, Somerset, 34035, Sussex, 34037, Union, 34039, Warren, 34041 NONE These are aggregate summary measures of acute MI and asthma hospitalizations between 2000 and 2005. Data should not be used in epidemiologic investigations of health outcome and environmental linkages. NJ EPHT Project Staff NJ Department of Health Physical

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Mercerville NJ 08619 United States Of America 609-588-7495 609-588-7599 NJ.EPHT@doh.state.nj.us M-F; 9PM - 5PM EST None None NONE The original data were provided to NJEPHT in ASCII delimited format and then converted to a SAS 9 dataset. NONE Data for all New Jersey hospitalizations are complete and verified between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2005. SAS test runs performed to generate acute MI NCDM tables 20080715 Data received from Health Care Quality Assessment in delimited ASCII format 20080613 Data converted from ASCII to SAS format 20080617 This dataset contains the following fields: HEALTHOUTCOMEID Health outcome (1=asthma, 2=acute myocardial infarction) STATE State of residence COUNTY County of residence ADMISSIONYEAR Year of hospital admission ADMISSIONMONTH Month of hospital admission AGEGROUP Five-year age group of individuals hospitalized for the condition indicated by HEALTHOUTCOMEID SEX Sex of individuals admitted RACEETHNICITYREPORTED Race and ethnicity fields reported in data ETHNICITY Ethnicity of individuals RACE Race of individuals TRANSFEREXCLUSION Exclusion of transfers from dataset EXCLUSIONMETHOD Variable used to identify & exclude transfers from dataset MONTHLYHOSPITALIZATIONS Number of monthly hospitalization events AGEGROUP coding scheme: 1=0-4 years 2=5-9 years 3=10-14 years 4=15-19 years 5=20-24 years 6=25-29 years 7=30-34 years 8=35-39 years 9=40-44 years 10=45-49 years 11=50-54 years 12=55-59 years 13=60-64 years 14=65-69 years 15=70-74 years 16=75-79 years 17=80-84 years 18=85+ years 19=unknown SEX coding scheme: M=Male F=Female U=Unknown RACEETHNICITYREPORTED coding scheme: 1=yes separate 2=yes combined 3=no ETHNICITY coding scheme: H=Hispanic NH=non-Hispanic U=Unknown RACE coding scheme: W=White B=Black O=Other U=Unknown TRANSFEREXCLUSION coding scheme: 1=Yes 2=No EXCLUSIONMETHOD coding scheme: 1=Unique ID 2=Source of admission 3=Disposition 9=Non-applicable NJ EPHT Project Staff NJ Department of Health Physical

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Mercerville NJ 08619 United States Of America 609-588-7495 609-588-7599 NJ.EPHT@doh.state.nj.us M-F; 9PM - 5PM EST Filename NJ Acute AMI and Asthma Hosp Updated.xml; File size: 31,240 KB (447 KB zipped); In preparation of data, every effort has been made to offer the most current, and correct data possible. Nevertheless, inadvertent errors in data may occur. The NJEPHTN and National EPHTN disclaim any responsibility for data errors and accuracy of the information that may be contained within the HCQA database. The state and national EPHTN also reserve the right to make changes at any time without notice. ; These data are distributed through the national environmental public health tracking portal.; 20080717 NJ EPHT Project Staff NJ Department of Health Physical

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Mercerville NJ 08619 United States Of America 609-588-7495 609-588-7599 NJ.EPHT@doh.state.nj.us M-F; 9PM - 5PM EST EPHTN Tracking Network Profile Version 1.2 NONE NONE