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Provider Ratings Variables Overview

The document lists variables from multiple files that contain healthcare provider ratings data from 2009 to 2011. It includes variables for the provider name, number, location, month, year, and five rating scores coded as character variables with possible values of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 70, or 90 to represent the number of stars in the rating. The coding of the rating variables is consistent with a standard monthly provider ratings file and two formats are provided to display the ratings as stars or text in outputs.

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Provider Ratings Variables Overview

The document lists variables from multiple files that contain healthcare provider ratings data from 2009 to 2011. It includes variables for the provider name, number, location, month, year, and five rating scores coded as character variables with possible values of 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 70, or 90 to represent the number of stars in the rating. The coding of the rating variables is consistent with a standard monthly provider ratings file and two formats are provided to display the ratings as stars or text in outputs.

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A list of the variables on each of the files is below.

List of Variables on ALLRATINGS2009_LONG - ALLRATINGS2011_LONG


# Variable

Type Len Format Informat Label

1 monthname

Char

2 PROVNUM

Char

3 STATE

Char

State abbreviation of Provider

4 overall_rating

Char

Overall Quality Rating

5 survey_rating

Char

Health Inspection Rating

6 quality_rating

Char

Quality Measure Rating

7 staffing_rating

Char

Staffing Rating

8 RN_staffing_rating Char

RN Staffing Rating

9 year

Num

Year (yyyy)

10 month

Num

8 Z2.

Month (mm)

11 PROVNAME

Char

9
10 $6.

50

Month name
$6.

Federal Provider Number

Provider Name

The five rating variables on these files are coded in the same way that they are on the standard
PROVIDER_RATING file that is produced each month. They are character variables but have only possible
values of 10,20,30,40,50,70,90 as shown below. The $starfmt will produce stars in rtf output.

PROC FORMAT;
VALUE $stars
'10'='*'
'20'='**'
'30'='***'
'40'='****'
'50'='*****'
'70' = 'Too New to Rate'
'90' = 'Data Not available'
;
** produces stars in RTF output ;
VALUE $starfmt
'10'='^\i0^{Unicode 2605}'
'20'='^\i0^{Unicode 2605}^{Unicode
'30'='^\i0^{Unicode 2605}^{Unicode
'40'='^\i0^{Unicode 2605}^{Unicode
'50'='^\i0^{Unicode 2605}^{Unicode
'70' = 'Too New to Rate'
'90' = 'Data Not available'
;
RUN;

2605}'
2605}^{Unicode 2605}'
2605}^{Unicode 2605}^{Unicode 2605}'
2605}^{Unicode 2605}^{Unicode 2605}^{Unicode 2605}'

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