HomeCalifornia Vital Stats to Care Delivery Linkage
The full dataset is available from the California Healthcare Information Resource Center. It contains information on all California newborns and mothers from 1991 to 2006, including the following: birth record, death record (if applicable), inpatient hospital stay data, emergency room data, and ambulatory surgery data.
This website provides the following documents in support of this dataset:
List of variables in linked file (excel)
Coding changes 2004 to 2006 (excel)
Linkage documentation (pdf)
| Probabilistic Linkage Results (excel) | |||
| 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 |
| 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 |
| 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
Western Users of SAS Software 2009 Presentations
Web-Based Integration of Data Collection and Reporting (powerpoint slides)
Web-Based Integration of Data Collection and Reporting (pdf paper)
Cesarean Research Documents
Risk adjusted C-section rates for California hospitals
Technical documentation for C-section study
