Visit Details

Overview: These variables allow you to search for criteria associated with a particular visit or encounter a patient had with the health system. They are typically most useful when used in a Non-Temporal Query where selected groups occur in the same financial encounter.

Dates: 2009 to present

Variable	Description	Values

Variable	Description	Values
Age at Visit	Patient’s age in years at the time of the specified visit or encounter. For patients 0-36 months old, month-by-month age variables are available.	Visit at ages >= 90 years old Visit at ages >= 85 years old Visit at ages >= 65 years old Visits at all ages (year by year) 3 to 89 years old Visit at age 25 months Visit at age 26 months Visit at age 27 months Visit at age 28 months Visit at age 29 months Visit at age 30 months Visit at age 31 months Visit at age 32 months Visit at age 33 months Visit at age 34 months Visit at age 35 months Visit at age 36 months Visit at age 13 months Visit at age 14 months Visit at age 15 months Visit at age 16 months Visit at age 17 months Visit at age 18 months Visit at age 19 months Visit at age 20 months Visit at age 21 months Visit at age 22 months Visit at age 23 months Visit at age 24 months Visit at age 01 months Visit at age 02 months Visit at age 03 months Visit at age 04 months Visit at age 05 months Visit at age 06 months Visit at age 07 months Visit at age 08 months Visit at age 09 months Visit at age 10 months Visit at age 11 months Visit at age 12 months
Length of Stay	For inpatient admissions only: Length of patient’s admission to the hospital in number of days elapsed from admission date to discharge date.	1 day 2 days 3 days 4 days 5 days 6 days 7 days 8 days 9 days 10 days > 10 days
Visit Type	This specifies the type of encounter the patient had with the health system (outpatient, inpatient, etc.).	Includes visits at outpatient clinics, physician offices, same day/ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care facilities, and other same-day ambulatory hospital encounters, but excludes emergency department encounters. Includes Emergency Department (ED) only encounters as well as ED encounters that become inpatient stays if the inpatient stay will be treated as a separate encounter. Excludes urgent care facility visits.