Costs for Hospital Stays in the United States, 2010

From the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ): Statistical Brief #146 presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on costs of hospital stays in the United States in 2010. Both aggregate hospital costs and the average costs per hospital stay are presented, by age and primary payer. The most costly inpatient conditions are …

HCUP Q&A

Q: My copy of an earlier year of the NIS came with two 10% subsamples. What are these? A: In the 2004 and earlier NIS, HCUP provided two 10% subsamples along with the core data file (a 20% sample) that would be used separately from each other. The 10% subsamples include their own discharges weights (DISCWT10), …

2010 National Inpatient Sample now available

The 2010 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) was released in June. The NIS is the largest inpatient care database in the U.S. and includes all patients, regardless of payer - covering Medicare, Medicaid, privately insured, and uninsured patients.  The NIS is a powerful database that contains data from approximately 8 million hospital stays, drawn from more than 1,000 …

2010 NIS available for health services research on inpatient hospital visits

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample(NIS) featuring 2010 data is now available. The NIS is the largest all-payer inpatient care database in the United States.  The NIS is nationally representative of all short-term, non-Federal hospitals in the U.S. It is drawn from the HCUP State Inpatient Databases (SID) and includes more than 8 million hospital …

HCUP – New statistical briefs

New reports published since March: #128 Hospital Stays with Cardiac Stents, 2009 #129 Rates of Obstetric Trauma, 2009 #130 Emergency Department Visits and Inpatient Hospital Stays for All-Terrain-Vehicle-Related Injuries, 2009 #131 Complicating Conditions of Vaginal Deliveries and Cesarean Sections, 2009 #132 Pediatric Cancer Hospitalizations, 2009 #133 Components of Cost Increases for Inpatient Hospital Procedures, 1997-2009 #134 Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Associated …

HCUP – Recently released additional 2010 state databases

Since March 2012, the following 2010 state databases have been released: State Inpatient Databases (SID): California, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, South Dakota State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD): California, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD): California, Florida, Hawaii, New Jersey, North Carolina Complete listings of available databases by year can be found in …

HCUP hands-on training sessions by AcademyHealth

Two hand-on training sessions in using the HCUP databases & HCUPnet will be held in conjunction with the 2012 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting in Orlando, Florida. HCUP In-Depth and a Special Focus on Repeated Use of Health Care Services (Revisits/Readmissions) June 23, 2012, 9:00am-1:00pm (Pre-Conference Meeting, Seminar in Health Services Research Methods) This seminar will …

HCUP Q & A

Question: How do I merge the 2009 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) with an external file from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) via the National Provider Identifier (NPI)? Answer: While the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) does not include the National Provider Identifier (NPI) – a number assigned to uniquely identify institutional providers – …

HCUP news – 2009 NEDS & other databases released

The 2009 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) has been released. NEDS is the largest all-payer ED database in the United States and contains information about geographic, hospital, patient, and visit characteristics. The 2009 NEDS contains data from nearly 29 million ED visits from more than 950 hospital-based EDs in 29 states. It approximates a 20-percent stratified …

H-CUP news: 2009 KIDS now available, 2009 NEDS & state databases coming soon

The 2009 Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID) has been released. The KID is the only dataset in the U.S. designed specifically to study hospital use, outcomes, and costs in the pediatric (under age 21) population. A new KID is released every three years.  The KID contains data from nearly 3.5 million pediatric hospital stays, drawn from …