Mortality Rates

[Christina Martone]

Hello,

I am looking to calculate a rate of mortality occurring within 30 days after a heart attack using medicare claims data. I have created a variable of those who have died (from the discharge status), and I was looking to simply count the number of deaths happening within 30 days after an AMI. I also have a variable looking at heart attack related readmissions within 30 days, and I figured I would count both the number of people in that category as well as those who died, but I keep getting a count of zero.

Does anyone have a better method of calculating the number of deaths occurring within 30 days after a heart attack?

Thank you for your help!
Christina

[Clyde Schechter]

I don't see how anybody can answer these questions without seeing 1) an example of the data (use -dataex-), 2) the code you tried, and 3) the output you got from that code.

[Christina Martone]

As I was typing out my code that I have been using, I figured out my error. So I'm all set now. Thank you anyway!