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Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Databases

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ)  Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of databases and tools intended to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of the U.S.   health care system.  HCUP results from Federal-State-Industry partnership to build a comprehensive all payer data system.  A summary of the databases available from HCUP can be found here.  A summary is also provided in the table below.

Abbreviation

File Description States Participating

Available From:

SID State Inpatient Databases Data on 95 percent of community hospital discharges 44 1990
SASD State Ambulatory Surgery Databases Ambulatory surgical center data (hospital and free-standing) 29 1997
SEDD State Emergency Department Databases ED visits that do not result in hospitalization 29 1999
NIS Nationwide Inpatient Sample All-payer inpatient care database. A 20% stratified sample of U.S. community hospitals. varies by year 1988
NEDS National Emergency Department Sample All-payer inpatient ED database. A 20% stratified sample of U.S. community hospitals. 2006
KID Kids’ Inpatient Database All-payer inpatient database for children.  Contains 3 million discharges form 3,500 community hospitals. 1997

 

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