The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) is part of a family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The KID is the largest publicly-available all-payer inpatient care database on children. The unique design of the KID enables national and regional studies of common and rare pediatric conditions. The KID can be used to identify, track, and analyze...

The State Ambulatory Surgery and Services Databases (SASD) are part of the family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The SASD are a set of databases that capture surgeries performed on the same day in which patients are admitted and released. The SASD contain more than 100 clinical and nonclinical variables abstracted from hospital discharge...

The Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) is part of a family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The NIS is the largest all-payer inpatient health care database in the United States, yielding national estimates of hospital inpatient stays. The NIS can be used to identify, track, and analyze national trends in health care utilization, access,...

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...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAHMSA) maintains the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), a national data system of annual admissions (TEDS-A) to and discharges (TEDS-D) from substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States. TEDS collects information on service setting, treatment details, and demographic variables from state agencies on all admissions and discharges...

The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. SEER collects data on cancer incidence and population data associated by age, sex, race, year of diagnosis, and geographic area from registries across the country, covering approximately 48% of the national...

INSIGHT Clinical Research Network is a project founded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) and is part of the PCORnet program. The INSIGHT longitudinal datasets bring together New York City organizations including medical schools, medical centers, research support organizations, and practice-based research networks. Over 160 million patient encounters and 365 million diagnoses...

The Press Ganey National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators® (NDNQI®) provides quarterly and annual data on structure, process, and outcomes of nursing care. It is used by 2,000 hospitals nationally and is the largest provider of unit-level performance data to hospitals. It contains data on hospital acquired conditions and adverse events including catheter-associated urinary tract infections, central...

This dataset was generated by a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a culturally tailored, evidence-based adherence intervention (AI) for Latino patients delivered by bilingual Health Coaches versus usual care (UC). 112 Latino patients with uncontrolled hypertension who were non-adherent to their anti-hypertensive medications were consented into the study. Data was collected...

Since 1999, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has collected and reported data from home health agencies through the Home Health Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS). Data is obtained from all adult patients at Medicare and Medicaid-certified home care agencies with few exclusions (patients under the age of 18, patients receiving maternity services, and patients receiving only...