Objectives To provide an overview of statewide hospital discharge databases (HDD),
including their uses in health services research and limitations, and to describe Agency for …

This work summarizes how hospital discharge data are used, identifies strengths and
shortcomings, and presents suggestions for enhancing usefulness of the data. Results …

Objectives-This report presents national estimates of the use of non-Federal short-stay
hospitals in the United States during 2004 and selected trend data. Numbers and rates of …

This report presents the most current nationally representative data on inpatient care in the
United States. Data are from the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), the longest …

Objectives: The objective of this study was to describe 2 measurement challenges faced in
the development of the National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) and the National …

Director and CEO of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium since its establishment in
1978. He was also an active member of the Public Health Data Standards Consortium and …

Background: Improving the collection and quality of race and ethnicity reported in hospital
data is a key step in identifying disparities in health service utilization and outcomes and …

Individual-year public-use data files are available for download from the website, and a
multiyear public-use data file for trend analysis is available on CD-ROM. These and other …

Program is to build a nationwide network of integrated health and environmental data to
measure impact of environmental factors on public health. This article describes how …

This Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Statistical Brief presents trends in
hospital-affiliated ED utilization by examining the population rate of ED visits and the …