The American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Survey Database™ represents the most credible, consistent and comprehensive data provided by more than 6,200 hospitals and 400 health care systems.
Data extractions currently are available for:
- AHA Annual Survey Database FY 2012 – FY 2021
- Information Technology Supplement Responses FY 2015-2021
- AHA Population Health Database FY 2015
With AHA Annual Survey Database, you can identify:
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Utilization: admissions, births, surgeries, ED visits, and staffing
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Physician arrangements
- Hospital service lines and facilities
- Organizational structure and affiliations
- Hospital CEO/President, key contact for system
- Alternative payment models
How To Use AHA Data
Most commonly, AHA data is merged with other datasets that contain hospital identifiers (e.g. hospital discharge data, claims, Medicare Compare Data, Medicare Cost Reports). In these cases, the AHA data supplies hospital characteristics (e.g. hospital ownership, bed size, type of teaching hospital) that are usually used as control or explanatory variables.
Examples:
- https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1558273
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-6773.12833
AHA data can also be used to construct geographic-level information (e.g. number of beds in a county, measures of hospital competition) that can be merged with other geo-coded information (e.g. Area Health Resources File, Prevention Quality Indicators) to conduct geographic-level or multi-level analyses.
Examples
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22216752/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213076420300440
