The United States' largest publicly available all-payer inpatient healthcare database, yielding national estimates of hospital inpatient stays. Unweighted, it contains data from more than 7 million hospital stays each year; weighted, it estimates more than 35 million hospitalizations nationally. Indicators from this data source have been computed by personnel in CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.
Use Cases
- Analyze national hospitalization trends based on annual inpatient stay data
- Study cardiovascular disease burden based on computed CVD indicators
- Stratify health outcomes by demographic groups based on age, sex, and race/ethnicity stratification mentioned
Strengths
- Unweighted data contains more than 7 million hospital stays each year
- Weighted data estimates more than 35 million hospitalizations nationally
- Data includes indicators computed by CDC's Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
- Collection Method
- Part of a family of databases and software tools developed for HCUP.
- Time Range
- 2001 forward
- Geography
- United States