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Data Sources
- Iowa state inpatient datasets (SID) used to calculate PSIs for each hospital each year.
- Hospital case mix and HHI were calculated using Iowa SIDs.
- Other county variables were retrieved from Bureau of Health Professions Area Resource File (ARF)
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