Emergency Department Encounter Query Module Configuration Selection

Overview

Overview

Click on either the Quick Selection or Advanced Selection bar to see a list of measures available. Use the hierarchical folder tree to navigate to the query module that will meet your needs. To see folder contents, click on the folder icon. Clicking on the folder again will hide the menu folder contents. When you click on the text link, it will take you to the query module. For further explanation on the modules, click on the "Help" button to the right.
Quick Selection (Click here for most commonly used measures)

Select measure to query by County or Local Health District. For Small Areas and maps use the Advanced Selection below. 

ED Treat and Release, Inpatient Admissions, and All Ecounters

Treat and Release: A patient that visits the ED, but is not admitted to the hospital as an inpatient. The patient does not stay overnight and is not admitted to another department of the hospital.

Treat and Admit (Inpatient Admissions): An ED patient that later become and inpatient. An inpatient stay involves and overnight stay and admission to another department of the hospital, such as the ICU.

All ED Encounters: All ED encounters includes all treat and release patients and all inpatient admissions through the ED.
Treat and Release
Hospital ED Encounters

Charges, Costs, Expenditures

Charges are what is on the hospital bill. Not all charges get paid. For instance, oftentimes, Medicaid or an insurance company will pay a certain percentage of the charges, and then the hospital has to write off the rest. Charges are what is on the UB92 billing form, and is the only piece of information we have access to. Costs are harder to measure and not available. Expenditures are bound to be less than charges.
Hospital ED Charges

ED Treat and Release, Inpatient Admissions, and All Ecounters

Treat and Release: A patient that visits the ED, but is not admitted to the hospital as an inpatient. The patient does not stay overnight and is not admitted to another department of the hospital.

Treat and Admit (Inpatient Admissions): An ED patient that later become and inpatient. An inpatient stay involves and overnight stay and admission to another department of the hospital, such as the ICU.

All ED Encounters: All ED encounters includes all treat and release patients and all inpatient admissions through the ED.
Treat and Admit (Inpatient)
Hospital Discharges

Charges, Costs, Expenditures

Charges are what is on the hospital bill. Not all charges get paid. For instance, oftentimes, Medicaid or an insurance company will pay a certain percentage of the charges, and then the hospital has to write off the rest. Charges are what is on the UB92 billing form, and is the only piece of information we have access to. Costs are harder to measure and not available. Expenditures are bound to be less than charges.
Hospital Charges

Length of Stay

Total days stayed in hospital form the date of admission to the date of discharge.
Hospital Length of Stay

ED Treat and Release, Inpatient Admissions, and All Ecounters

Treat and Release: A patient that visits the ED, but is not admitted to the hospital as an inpatient. The patient does not stay overnight and is not admitted to another department of the hospital.

Treat and Admit (Inpatient Admissions): An ED patient that later become and inpatient. An inpatient stay involves and overnight stay and admission to another department of the hospital, such as the ICU.

All ED Encounters: All ED encounters includes all treat and release patients and all inpatient admissions through the ED.
All ED Encounters
Hospital ED Encounters

Charges, Costs, Expenditures

Charges are what is on the hospital bill. Not all charges get paid. For instance, oftentimes, Medicaid or an insurance company will pay a certain percentage of the charges, and then the hospital has to write off the rest. Charges are what is on the UB92 billing form, and is the only piece of information we have access to. Costs are harder to measure and not available. Expenditures are bound to be less than charges.
Hospital ED Charges
Advanced Selection (Click here for Small Area)

Select the Geographic Area 

County and Local Health District, 1999-present

ED Treat and Release, Inpatient Admissions, and All Ecounters

Treat and Release: A patient that visits the ED, but is not admitted to the hospital as an inpatient. The patient does not stay overnight and is not admitted to another department of the hospital.

Treat and Admit (Inpatient Admissions): An ED patient that later become and inpatient. An inpatient stay involves and overnight stay and admission to another department of the hospital, such as the ICU.

All ED Encounters: All ED encounters includes all treat and release patients and all inpatient admissions through the ED.
Treat and Release
Hospital ED Encounters

Count - ED Treat and Release Encounters

Number of treat and release hospital emergency department encounters during the time period.
Count - ED Treat and Release Encounters
Crude Rates - ED Treat and Release Encounters

Crude Rate

A crude rate is a fraction, in which the numerator is the number of people in whom an event occurred during a certain period of time, and the denominator is the total number of people in the population at risk for the same period of time.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map
Age-adjusted Rates - ED Treat and Release Encounters

Charges, Costs, Expenditures

Charges are what is on the hospital bill. Not all charges get paid. For instance, oftentimes, Medicaid or an insurance company will pay a certain percentage of the charges, and then the hospital has to write off the rest. Charges are what is on the UB92 billing form, and is the only piece of information we have access to. Costs are harder to measure and not available. Expenditures are bound to be less than charges.
Hospital ED Charges

ED Treat and Release, Inpatient Admissions, and All Ecounters

Treat and Release: A patient that visits the ED, but is not admitted to the hospital as an inpatient. The patient does not stay overnight and is not admitted to another department of the hospital.

Treat and Admit (Inpatient Admissions): An ED patient that later become and inpatient. An inpatient stay involves and overnight stay and admission to another department of the hospital, such as the ICU.

All ED Encounters: All ED encounters includes all treat and release patients and all inpatient admissions through the ED.
Treat and Admit (Inpatient)
Hospital Discharges

ED Inpatient Admissions versus HDDB Inpatients

The HDDB includes all inpatient hospital admissions, some of which come from the ED, and others do not. There is a subset of patients, those who come in through the ED and are later admitted as an inpatient, who are in both datasets.
Count of In-patient Admissions from ED
Crude Rates - Admissions from ED

Crude Rate

A crude rate is a fraction, in which the numerator is the number of people in whom an event occurred during a certain period of time, and the denominator is the total number of people in the population at risk for the same period of time.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map
Age-adjusted Rates - Admissions from ED

Charges, Costs, Expenditures

Charges are what is on the hospital bill. Not all charges get paid. For instance, oftentimes, Medicaid or an insurance company will pay a certain percentage of the charges, and then the hospital has to write off the rest. Charges are what is on the UB92 billing form, and is the only piece of information we have access to. Costs are harder to measure and not available. Expenditures are bound to be less than charges.
Hospital Charges

Length of Stay

Total days stayed in hospital form the date of admission to the date of discharge.
Hospital Length of Stay

ED Treat and Release, Inpatient Admissions, and All Ecounters

Treat and Release: A patient that visits the ED, but is not admitted to the hospital as an inpatient. The patient does not stay overnight and is not admitted to another department of the hospital.

Treat and Admit (Inpatient Admissions): An ED patient that later become and inpatient. An inpatient stay involves and overnight stay and admission to another department of the hospital, such as the ICU.

All ED Encounters: All ED encounters includes all treat and release patients and all inpatient admissions through the ED.
All ED Encounters
Hospital ED Encounters

Count - ED Encounters

Number of hospital emergency department encounters during the time period.
Count - ED Encounters
Crude Rates - ED Encounters

Crude Rate

A crude rate is a fraction, in which the numerator is the number of people in whom an event occurred during a certain period of time, and the denominator is the total number of people in the population at risk for the same period of time.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map
Age-adjusted Rates - ED Encounters

Charges, Costs, Expenditures

Charges are what is on the hospital bill. Not all charges get paid. For instance, oftentimes, Medicaid or an insurance company will pay a certain percentage of the charges, and then the hospital has to write off the rest. Charges are what is on the UB92 billing form, and is the only piece of information we have access to. Costs are harder to measure and not available. Expenditures are bound to be less than charges.
Hospital ED Charges
Utah's 61 Small Areas, 1999-present

ED Treat and Release, Inpatient Admissions, and All Ecounters

Treat and Release: A patient that visits the ED, but is not admitted to the hospital as an inpatient. The patient does not stay overnight and is not admitted to another department of the hospital.

Treat and Admit (Inpatient Admissions): An ED patient that later become and inpatient. An inpatient stay involves and overnight stay and admission to another department of the hospital, such as the ICU.

All ED Encounters: All ED encounters includes all treat and release patients and all inpatient admissions through the ED.
Treat and Release
Hospital ED Encounters

Count - ED Treat and Release Encounters

Number of treat and release hospital emergency department encounters during the time period.
Count - ED Treat and Release Encounters
Crude Rates - ED Treat and Release Encounters

Crude Rate

A crude rate is a fraction, in which the numerator is the number of people in whom an event occurred during a certain period of time, and the denominator is the total number of people in the population at risk for the same period of time.
Data table and chart

Quartile Map

A "Quartile" map assigns areas to four groups. Each group includes the SAME NUMBER of areas. For instance, for local health districts, each group includes three areas. Group membership and map color are based on the rank order of area rates, from the lowest rate to the highest. The first quartile is colored white and consists of areas with the lowest rates. Areas with the darkest color have the highest rates. Percentile maps such as this assign 25% of the areas to the "highest" category, even when area rates are very close. In other words, just because an area is in the "highest" category doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is significantly high.
Data table and Quartile Map

High-Low-Same Map

A "High-Low-Same" map assigns areas to three groups. Group membership and map color are based on whether each area's rate is significantly different (higher or lower) from the state rate. An area's rate is considered significantly different if the overall state rate falls outside (above or below) the confidence interval for that area. Maps such as this one may lack color variation if the area rates are based on very few cases and have wide confidence intervals. In other words, just because an area's rate is statistically the "same" as the state rate doesn't necessarily mean that the rate is not meaningfully high or low.
Data table and High-Low-Same Map
Age-adjusted Rates - ED Treat and Release Encounters