Data
559,506 items of data are available, covering 449,028 participants.
Array indices run from 0 to 15.
Average length is 2.0 characters, longest is 2.
Notes
This field is a summary of the distinct source of admission codes a participant has had recorded in their hospital inpatient records. Source of admission identifies whether a patient came to the hospital from their usual place of residence or elsewhere.
Note that the original information was obtained from a variety of external sources, some of which used overlapping and contradictory coding schemes. The values in this field can therefore only be interpreted when the source of each item is known (see Field 41253) using the source-specific codings Data-Coding 203, Data-Coding 243, Data-Coding 244 and Data-Coding 253. It is recommended that the re-coded Field 41251 is used instead of this one.
This field corresponds to the field ADMISORC on the HESIN table; see the Inpatient Data Dictionary (Resource 141140) in Category 2000 for information about the HESIN table.
In order to conduct detailed analyses of this data using the source information, researchers will need to gain access to the HESIN table by adding Field 41259 to their basket.