The Area Health Resources Files (AHRF) provide current as well as historic data for more than 6,000 variables for each of the nation's counties, as well as state and national data. They contain information on health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. In addition,...

The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) is a national survey designed to provide objective, reliable information about the provision and use of ambulatory medical care services in the United States. The survey was conducted annually from 1973 to 1981, in 1985, and annually since 1989. The survey samples visits to non-federally employed office-based physicians who are engaged in direct patient...

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers (doctors, hospitals, pharmacies, etc.), and employers across the United States. MEPS collects data on the specific health services that Americans use, how frequently they use them, the cost of these services, and how they are paid for, as well as data on the cost, scope,...

The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS) (formerly titled Uniform Facility Data Set (UFDS)) is designed to collect information from all facilities in the United States, both public and private, that provide substance abuse treatment. Data collected in N-SSATS include topics covering facility operation, services offered, primary focus, hotline operation, Opioid Treatment Programs...

The Consortium of Hospitals Advancing Research on Tobacco (CHART) is a network of six projects and a coordinating center aimed at assessing the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation interventions initiated during hospitalizations and continued post-discharge. The CHART New York Smoking-Cessation Interventions for Urban Hospital Patients trial looked at the effectiveness of a pro-active,...

The Community Health Resources and Needs Assessment (CHRNA) project is a large-scale health needs assessment in diverse, low-income Asian American communities in New York City. The project uses a community-engaged and community venue-based approach to assess existing health issues, available resources, and best approaches to meet community health needs. Questions asked in the CHRNAs assess various...

The National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS) is a series of surveys of a nationally representative sample of home health and hospice agencies in the United States. It provides descriptive information on home health and hospice agencies, their staff, their services, and their patients. Information collected on agencies includes the year an agency was established, the types of services provided,...

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...

From 2020 through 2021, the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) Government Measures dataset tracked government responses to the pandemic over time using information compiled by ACAPS analysts and volunteers from the University of Copenhagen and University of Lund. Information was obtained from public sources, including governments, media, United Nations agencies, and other organizations, and are...