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Query Results for COPD - Inpatient Hospital Admissions

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Query Criteria

Measure Description:Number of inpatient hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD, primary diagnosis only)
Single Years Filter: 2024
Data Grouped By:County

  • **The estimate has been suppressed because the number of events and population size are small and not appropriate for publication, or it could be used to calculate the number in a cell that has been suppressed.
  • #This count or rate is statistically unstable (RSE >0.30), and may fluctuate widely across time periods due to random variation (chance). Please use caution in interpreting this value, or combine years, areas, or age groups to increase the population size.

Data Notes

  • COPD Metadata

    For the complete metadata file, including the ICD codes used to identify a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease hospital visit, please see the [[a href=dataportal/metadata/COPD_Hospitalizations.html COPD Hospitalization metadata file.]]

  • Hospital Visit Definition

    This Environmental Public Health Tracking query defines the year and month using the date of admission rather than date of discharge. The data include inpatient visits to general acute care hospitals only and excludes newborns and visits to New Mexico hospitals by out-of-state residents.

  • Statistical Stability

    Problems with statistical instability (indicated by a # or ## symbol in the right column of the data table, above) typically occur when there is a small number of health events in a small population. For more information on statistical stability, visit the NM-IBIS [https://ibis.doh.nm.gov/resource/ReliabilityValidity.html Reliability and Validity] page.

  • International Classification of Disease (ICD) Codes

    ICD Stands for International Classification of Diseases. It is a coding system maintained by the World Health Organization and the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics used to classify causes of death on death certificates and diagnoses, injury causes, and medical procedures for hospital and emergency department visits. These codes are updated every decade or so to account for advances in medical technology. The U.S. is currently using the 10th revision (ICD-10) to code causes of death. The 9th revision (ICD-9) was still used for hospital and emergency department visits until October 2015.

Data Sources

Hospital Inpatient Discharge Data, New Mexico Department of Health.

Data Issue

The hospital inpatient discharge data include visits to NON-FEDERAL HOSPITALS only. Visits to Veteran's Administration (VA) facilities and Indian Health Service (IHS) facilities have not been included, unless specifically stated otherwise. Results from this query should not be used to make population inferences for New Mexico's American Indian populations. The data include all hospital visits. Persons with multiple hospital visits will be counted multiple times. By default, these query results include records for in-hospital deaths. Users wishing to query only non-fatal hospitalizations should filter the data to include all discharge statuses OTHER than **EXPIRED**. Transfer visits have not been removed from the dataset. Patients who were transferred from one facility to another will have data records at each facility. For inpatient visits with a diagnosis of "childbirth", data records for mothers have been included, but the data records for newborns have excluded from the HIDD queries. The ICD coding system, maintained by the World Health Organization and the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, is used to classify diagnoses for hospital and emergency department visits. This coding system underwent a major revision from version 9 to version 10 that went into effect October 1, 2015. In most cases, the two versions do not provide comparable results, and the two time periods should not be combined in a single query. The hospital inpatient dataset includes only New Mexico residents hospitalized in New Mexico hospitals and do not include visits for New Mexico residents who visited a hospital in another state. In cases of serious injuries near the state borders, oftentimes patients will be transported to a nearby trauma center in the bordering state.
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These data were queried on: Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:14:22 MST
The dataset was last updated on: Tue, 9 Dec 2025 15:59:52 MST
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program, Environmental Health Epidemiology Bureau, Center for Health Protection, New Mexico Department of Health, 1190 St. Francis Drive, Suite 1300, Santa Fe, NM 87505, Chelsea Langer, Bureau Chief, Chelsea.Langer@doh.nm.gov