HCUP State Inpatient Databases
Alternate Titles(s): SID, HCUP SID, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databases
- 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
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AlaskaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoSee all...FloridaGeorgiaHawaiiIowaKansasKentuckyMaineMarylandMassachusettsNebraskaNevadaNew JerseyNew MexicoNew York (State)North CarolinaOregonPennsylvaniaRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaUtahVermontWashington (State)West VirginiaWisconsin
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Access
- Restrictions
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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.
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