The Area Health Resources Files (AHRF) provides 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. It contains 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 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 AMA Physician Masterfile includes education, training and professional certification information on virtually all Doctors of Medicine (MD) and Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) in the United States, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and certain Pacific Islands. It includes current and historical data for more than 1.4 million physicians, residents, and medical students in the United States. This...

The Nurses' Health Studies (NHS) are long-running, questionnaire-based studies on women's health. The study was initiated in 1976 with the NHS cohort. The initial studies focus on cancer, cardiovascular disease and risk factors for chronic health issues in women. The latest cohort, NH3, has been expanded to include both male and female registered nurses and nursing students. Survey and biospecimen...

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,...

The National Drug Abuse Treatment System Survey (NDATSS) provides management- and policy-relevant information about substance abuse treatment in the United States. Substance abuse treatment programs are chosen for the study by random selection from a list of all such programs, provided by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Survey response rates range between 82-92%,...

This dataset includes structured, in-depth interviews with 24 physicians from diverse clinical backgrounds and geographic areas within the United States. These physicians were identified with purposive sampling strategies. Physicians who reported currently caring for patients through active surveillance were invited to participate. An interview guide was developed based on a literature review and previous...

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...

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...

This dataset consists of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth waves of a multi wave panel survey that studied newly licensed registered nurses who obtained their first license to practice between September 1, 2004 and August 31, 2005. It was conducted as part of the RN Work Project, a national study of new nurses funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The survey was conducted in...