Hospital Data Resource
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of health care databases and related products developed through a federal-state-industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). HCUP databases bring together the data collection efforts of state data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the federal government to create a national information resource of patient-level health care data. HCUP includes the largest collection of multi-year hospital care data in the United States, with all-payer, encounter-level information beginning in 1988. These databases enable research on a broad range of health policy issues, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care programs, and outcomes of treatments at the national, state, and local market levels.
One product HCUP produces are Statistical Briefs, which present simple, descriptive statistics on a variety of specific, focused topics using HCUP data. Statistical Briefs pertaining to environmental health issues include:
A complete listing of Statistical Briefs by topic are available on the HCUP-US Web site at http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/sbtopic.jsp.
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