HCUP State Inpatient Databases

Alternate Titles(s): SID, HCUP SID, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databases
UID: 10015
Description
The State Inpatient Databases (SID) are part of the family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The SID are a set of hospital databases containing the universe of the inpatient discharge abstracts from participating States, translated into a uniform format to facilitate multi-State comparisons and analyses. The SID can be used to investigate questions and identify trends unique to one state, to compare data from two or more states, and to conduct market area research or small area variation analyses. Data may not be available for all states across all years.
Publisher
Timeframe
1990 - Present
Geographic Coverage
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Nebraska
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York (State)
North Carolina
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Utah
Vermont
Washington (State)
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Local Expert
Subject of Study
Subject Domain
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Access

Restrictions
Fee Required
Instructions

The data is available for purchase through the HCUP Central Distributor. Prior to purchasing HCUP data, all individuals are required to take the online HCUP Data Use Agreement Training Tool, and read and sign the Data Use Agreement for Nationwide Databases. The dataset is distributed as fixed-width ASCII formatted data files compressed with SecureZIP from PKWARE.

To load and analyze the dataset on a computer, you will need the following: a DVD drive, the password provided by the HCUP Central Distributor, a hard drive with at 1 to 4 GB of space available, depending on the data requested; and SAS, SPSS, Stata or similar analysis software.

The data set comes with full documentation. Documentation and tools, including programs for loading the ASCII file into SAS or SPSS are also available on the Database Documentation page.

Data Type
Dataset Format(s)
ASCII
Dataset Size
4GB
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