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Texas Emergency Department Public Use Data File

Texas Health Care Information Collection
Center for Health Statistics

The 2014–15 General Appropriations Act, S.B. 1, 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, 2013 (Article II, Department of State Health Services [DSHS], Rider 93) specified that DSHS shall collect hospital emergency department (ED) data as set forth in Chapter 108, Texas Health and Safety Code (THSC). DSHS currently collects inpatient and outpatient data from hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers. DSHS began collecting ED data from hospitals on January 1, 2015 per 25 Texas Administrative Code (TAC), Sections 421.71-421.78, and in conjunction with the collection of inpatient and outpatient data.

In accordance with Health and Safety Code, Section 108.012(b), "the department may charge a person requesting public use or provider quality data a fee for the data. The fees may reflect the quantity of information provided and the expense incurred by the department in collecting and providing the data. The executive commissioner by rule and shall be set the fees at a level that will raise revenue sufficient for the operation of the department. The department may not charge a fee for providing public use data to another Texas state agency. View Chapter 108.

The Hospital Emergency Department (ED) Public Use Data Files (PUDF) include data from Inpatient PUDF and the Outpatient PUDF. The Inpatient PUDF contains patient-level information for patients which were admitted into the hospital for care. The inpatient hospital stay may last several hours to days, weeks or years, depending upon the condition or status of the patient before being discharged, transferred or expired; the Outpatient PUDF contains patient-level information for outpatient services that do not go more than twenty-four (24) hours from the time they are being treated in the hospital or ambulatory surgery center (ASC).

The Hospital ED PUDF is currently available for the first quarter 2016 through first quarter 2024. The second quarter 2024 is tentatively scheduled to be released March 2025.

Purchasing the Hospital ED PUDF requires a completed Order Form, which includes a Data Use Agreement.

Statistics on emergency department events (Excel format)

Information on the data fields is included in the user manual available below.

The 2024 Hospital ED PUDF contains

Number of Hospitals Number of Records
  IP Base IP Charges OP Bases OP Charges
First quarter, 848 facilities 470,906 records 11,075,337 records 3,076,648 records 27,229,433 records

The 2023 Hospital ED PUDF contains

Number of Hospitals  Number of Records      
  IP Base IP Charges OP Bases  OP Charges
First quarter, 847 facilities 443,443 records 10,384,173 records 2,832,990 records 25,222,582 records
Second quarter, 843 facilities 438,451 records 10,136,349 records 2,899,136 records 25,633,620 records
Third quarter, 822 facilities 448,014 records 10,311,351 records 2,690,638 records 26,430,907 records
Fourth quarter, 852 facilities 456,910 records 10,564,726 records 3,158,898 records 27,315,160 records

The 2022 Hospital ED PUDF contains:

Number of Hospitals  Number of Records      
  IP Base IP Charges OP Bases  OP Charges
First quarter, 841 facilities 411,804 records 9,635,114 records 2,733,951 records 23,109,921 records
Second quarter, 841 facilities 410,848 records 9,336,411 records 2,799,422 records 24,351,621 records
Third quarter, 845 facilities 427,409 records 9,681,569 records 2,937,007 records 25,342,183 records
Fourth quarter, 837 facilities 438,056 records 10,070,805 records 3,150,882 records 26,046,303 records

The 2021 Hospital ED PUDF contains:

Number of Hospitals  Number of Records      
  IP Base IP Charges OP Bases  OP Charges
First quarter, 809 facilities 410,049 records 11,323,735 records 2,385,430 records 20,991,869 records
Second quarter, 813 facilities 411,152 records 9,681,691 records 2,625,684 records 23,156,146 records
Third quarter, 817 facilities 439,293 records  10,137,933 records 3,068,522 records 24,591,264 records 
Fourth quarter, 817 facilities 414,199 records 9,584,088 records  2,896,344 records  23,976,539 records 

The 2020 Hospital ED PUDF contains:

Number of Hospitals Number of Records       
  IP Base IP Charges  OP Base   OP Charges
First quarter, 503 facilities  410,367 records 8,803,361 records 2,483,855 records 20,397,393 records
Second quarter, 489 facilities  347,806 records 7,484,854 records  1,612,607 records 14,724,511 records 
Third quarter, 497 facilities 386,828 records 10,290,344 records 1,849,868 records  17,068,467 records  
Fourth quarter, 790 facilities 403,844 records 10,939,368 records 2,505,863 records  20,976,708 records

The 2019 Hospital ED PUDF contains:

Number of Hospitals  Number of Records         
  IP Base  IP Charges Op Base OP Charges
First quarter, 491 facilities  406,180 records 8,252,417 records 2,544,659 records 21,413,050 records
Second quarter, 492 facilities 398,940 records 8,017,296 records 2,463,527 records 21,350,818 records
Third quarter, 488 facilities 400,377 records 8,192,082 records 2,440,133 records 21,130,812 records
Fourth quarter, 489 facilities 413,783 records 8,737,281 records 2,638,460 records  21,336,880 records

Texas Health Data

Texas Health Data is an interactive public data system that allows you to query THCIC PUDF and statistical reports for Texas healthcare utilization and quality measures.

Texas Health Data

Free Data Download
The Public Use Data File (PUDF) for 2016, 2017, and 2018, in fixed-length and tab-delimited format, are available for free download. Please submit an order form.

Technical Update

An update has been released for the third quarter 2019. THCIC found that thirty (30) of the eighty (80) duplicates Outpatient data records in the 3rd quarter Outpatient 2019 data are ED Outpatient data. THCIC also found that sixty-one (61) of those seventy-nine (79) missing records from the 3rd quarter Outpatient 2019 data are ED Outpatient data. Therefore, THCIC reran the 3rd quarter ED Outpatient 2019 data to remove the duplicates and add the sixty-one (61) missing records to create a new 3rd quarter ED Outpatient 2019 data. THCIC will send you (fixed-length and tab-delimited files):

  • A new 3rd quarter ED Outpatient 2019 data named “ED-OP_base3q2019.txt” and a classification file named “ED-OP_classification_3q2019.txt”;
  • A dataset containing only the thirty (30) duplicate records (all data fields from the Base file) removed from the 3rd quarter ED Outpatient 2019 data named “ed_op_3q2019_dups.txt” and a classification file for the thirty (30) duplicate records named “ed-op_classification_dups_3q2019.txt”;
  • A dataset containing only the sixty-one (61) missing records (all data fields from the Base file) added to the new 3rd quarter ED Outpatient 2019 data named “ed_op_3q2019_miss.txt” and a classification file for the sixty-one (61) missing records named “ed_op_classification_miss_3q2019.txt”.

The thirty (30) duplicates Records ID removed from the 3rd quarter ED Outpatient 2019 data are listed in Table2 of the excel file named “THCIC ED 3Q2019 Duplicates Record IDs Addenda”. 

  • Third quarter, 2019 - ED Update Excel (10 KB)

An update has been released for the first quarter 2019 “ED Facility_type1q2019.txt” and “ED Facility_type1q2019_tab.txt” files. A number of facilities that submitted data were not included in those files. The update contains the correct reporting of the facilities and facility type information for the 1Q2019 Emergency Department Facility Type files. All other data files were correctly reported and in the appropriate data files. Released February 18, 2020

Data Purchasers

The list of organizations a variety of organizations that use the data for analysis. The listing includes recipients from calendar year 2022 through calendar year 2023. This list is updated annually. (February 7, 2024).

If you have suggestions or comments regarding ED PUDF data, submit them to THCIC.