Age:     Alcohol Use Disorders ED, Age segmentation                                                     Age Distribution:  Alcohol Use Disorders ED, Age Distribution

Race/Ethnicity:     Alcohol Use Disorders ED, Race/Ethnicity segmentation                 Race Ethnicity Distribution:   Alcohol Use Disorders ED, Race/Ethnicity Distribution

Poverty Rate:     Alcohol Use Disorders ED, Poverty Rate segmentation                 Poverty Rate Distribution:   Alcohol Use Disorders ED, Poverty Rate Distribution

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New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Statewide Planning and Research Collaborative (SPARCS)

SPARCS is a comprehensive all-payer data reporting system established in 1979 as a result of cooperation between the healthcare industry and government. The system was initially created to collect information on discharges from hospitals. SPARCS currently collects patient-level detail on patient characteristics, diagnoses and treatments, services, and charges for each hospital inpatient stay and outpatient (ambulatory surgery, emergency department, and outpatient services) visit, and each ambulatory surgery and outpatient services visit to a hospital extension clinic and diagnostic and treatment center licensed to provide ambulatory surgery services. Common Ground health receives the SPARCS record level data and completes a series of analyses to calculate age-sex adjusted visit rates and visit counts for several different segmentations (geographic and demographic segments such as age, race/ethnicity, etc.)

This Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS) data was provided to Pivital Public Health Partnership by Common Ground Health.  This publication was produced from raw data provided by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH). However, the conclusions derived, and views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the conclusions or views of NYSDOH. NYSDOH, its employees, officers, and agents make no representation, warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, completeness, currency, or suitability of the information provided here.

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Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System (SPARCS), 2017-2023

Analysis by Common Ground Health

Measure Methods: 

Many of the Common Ground Health calculated rates are age/sex-adjusted to provide a more 'apples-to-apples' comparison between populations. By using this approach, we eliminate differences in observed rates that result from variations in age and sex composition across different populations.

Our process begins by calculating the observed rates for each age/sex subgroup within our study population. These rates are then multiplied by the corresponding age and sex proportions from a standard population (i.e. 2020 US Census population estimates). The weighted rates are summed to produce the overall age/sex-adjusted rate.