Patients Leaving California Hospitals Against Medical Advice (AMA)
These datasets focus on patients leaving California hospitals against medical advice (AMA), which is defined as choosing to leave the hospital before the treating physician recommends discharge. Patients leaving AMA are exposed to higher risks due to inadequately treated medical issues, which may result in the need for readmission.
Complete Metadata
| @type | dcat:Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessLevel | public |
| contactPoint |
{
"fn": "Department of Health Care Access and Information, Healthcare Analytics Branch",
"@type": "vcard:Contact",
"hasEmail": "mailto:dataandreports@hcai.ca.gov"
}
|
| description | These datasets focus on patients leaving California hospitals against medical advice (AMA), which is defined as choosing to leave the hospital before the treating physician recommends discharge. Patients leaving AMA are exposed to higher risks due to inadequately treated medical issues, which may result in the need for readmission. |
| distribution |
[
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "Patients Leaving California Hospitals Against Medical Advice Data Set",
"format": "CSV",
"mediaType": "text/csv",
"describedBy": "https://data.ca.gov/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=3012d4e2-51aa-4036-8bec-c7cbd7395da8&limit=0",
"description": "This dataset contains counts of discharges as well as a breakdown of discharge counts among those patients leaving against medical advice. The data is categorized by year of discharge, admission type, assigned sex at birth, patient age, expected payer, homeless status, primary diagnosis, and race/ethnicity group.",
"downloadURL": "https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/44c01ec9-f092-422f-bf55-421aa975dac6/resource/fce7850e-9b9f-4c51-9a29-cca7b9f2de19/download/patients-leaving-california-hospitals-against-medical-advice.csv",
"describedByType": "application/json"
},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "Readmission Rates in Patients Recently Discharged AMA vs Not AMA Data Set",
"format": "CSV",
"mediaType": "text/csv",
"describedBy": "https://data.ca.gov/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id=80dfb75e-c39d-472f-857a-cb74b206c159&limit=0",
"description": "This dataset contains counts of readmissions, discharges, and readmission rates among patients who were readmitted in a single calendar year. The data indicates if the previous discharge was against medical advice, and how many days passed between each discharge and subsequent readmission.",
"downloadURL": "https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/44c01ec9-f092-422f-bf55-421aa975dac6/resource/141d91d6-464d-42d4-b216-6748d8e7e1b2/download/readmissions-rates-in-patients-recently-discharged-ama-vs-not-ama.csv",
"describedByType": "application/json"
},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "Readmission Rates in Patients Previously Discharged AMA vs Not AMA Data Dictionary",
"format": "PDF",
"mediaType": "application/pdf",
"downloadURL": "https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/44c01ec9-f092-422f-bf55-421aa975dac6/resource/6bc0a279-a8a3-4277-a4ab-b678d2738e77/download/data-dictionary-for-readmission-rates-in-patients-previously-discharged-ama-vs-not-ama.pdf"
},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "All resource data",
"format": "ZIP",
"mediaType": "application/zip",
"downloadURL": "https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/44c01ec9-f092-422f-bf55-421aa975dac6/resource/a609268d-91e0-4baa-9a64-a58ffa2357c0/download/patients-leaving-california-hospitals-against-medical-advice-ama-7m2b8xib.zip"
},
{
"@type": "dcat:Distribution",
"title": "Patients Leaving California Hospitals Against Medical Advice Data Dictionary",
"format": "PDF",
"mediaType": "application/pdf",
"downloadURL": "https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/44c01ec9-f092-422f-bf55-421aa975dac6/resource/aae9dc8f-3675-4e15-b9e2-a7f7b7d603f1/download/data_dictionary_for_patients_leaving_ca_hospitals_ama.pdf"
}
]
|
| identifier | 4c92f6f6-dbf2-45f2-b89f-52f371361f15 |
| issued | 2021-02-11T19:14:08.795165 |
| keyword |
[
"AMA",
"clinical diagnosis",
"department of health care access and information",
"healthcare",
"healthcare quality",
"hospital discharges",
"hospitals",
"patients leaving against medical advice"
]
|
| license | http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by |
| modified | 2025-12-16T17:52:49.565753 |
| publisher |
{
"name": "Department of Health Care Access and Information",
"@type": "org:Organization"
}
|
| theme |
[
"Health and Human Services"
]
|
| title | Patients Leaving California Hospitals Against Medical Advice (AMA) |
