Montana Hospital Discharge
Data System
The Hospital Discharge Data System provides access to inpatient hospitalization data provided by the Montana Hospital Association, based on the Uniform Billing 2004 form UB-04. The Montana Hospital Discharge Data System provides support to employees of Montana DPHHS, and summary statistics and analysis to the general public.
Announcements
The Montana Hospital Discharge Data System is pleased to present its first quarterly report, Introducing the Montana Hospital Discharge Data System. This report focuses on uses of hospital discharge data by programs such as the Montana Diabetes Project and the Asthma Control Program, description of the data system, and hospitalizations by major classification of primary diagnosis.
For further information, please contact Cody L. Custis, Epidemiologist, Hospital Discharge Data System.
Surveillance Reports
- Reading the Literals: Searching For Expression in Text of Death Certificates In Montana, 2003-2010 (October 2012)
- Hepatitis C in Montana Hopitalizations, 2000-2011 (August 2012)
- Results of the E-Code Quality Improvement Project, Phase II, 2012 (August 2012)
- Staphylococcus aureus Infections in Montana Hospital Admissions, 2000-2011 (July 2012)
- Hospitalizations for Heat-Related Illnesses in Montana, 2001-2010 (May 2012)
- Trends In Hospitalization With An Obesity Code, Montana 2001-2010 (April 2012)
- Multiple Births in Montana, 2011-2010 (Sept 2011)
- Results of the E-Code Quality Improvement Survey, 2011 (July 2011)
- Hospitalizations In Montana Due To Injuries Caused By Animals, 2000-2009 (July 2011)
- Traumatic Amputations In Montana, 2000-2009 (Jan 2011)
- MHDDS adds Montana State Hospital Adult Mental Health Discharges (Dec 2010)
- Declining Rates of Circumcisions in Montana, 2000-2008 (Oct 2010)
- Potentially Avoidable Hospitalizations For Chronic Disease In Montana, 2000-2008 (Aug 2010)
- Extremity Amputations in Montana 2000-2008 (June 2010)
- In-Hospital Mortality From Acute Myocardial Infarction in Montana 2000-2008 (June 2010)
- Hospitalizations for Cardiovascular Diseases in Montana 2000 - 2008 (May 2010)
- Carbon Monoxide in Montana (Feb 2010)
- Introduction of Hospital Discharge (Nov 2009)
Graphics
- Air Quality and Claims for Asthma Visits to Medicaid Providers, Lewis & Clark County, August 2009 - February 2012 (Nov 2012)
- Age Distributions of the Resident Population of Montana and the United States by Age, April 1, 2010 (Nov 2012)
Special Reports
- Record Linkage Between Montana Highway Patrol And Montana Vital Statistics Data, 2008-2011 (February 2013)
- Montana Prevention Quality Indicators 2000 – 2009
- Differences Between the Montana Hospital Discharge Data System and the Montana Central Tumor Registry in the Enumeration of Prostate Cancer Cases and the Description of Treatment Practices


