Discrepancies Between Monthly & Quarterly Elmhurst ED Visits as Reported via SPARCS and HHC

In yesterday’s article about challenges with obtaining Elmhurst Hospital emergency department visit data, I included a footnote (7) about a discrepancy involving monthly ED numbers colleagues & I used in Does New York City Make Any Sense? (Verduyn et al, 2023).

Here I show the discrepancy in the context of other data, which I think could be a sign that d…