Healthcare Cost and Utilisation Project (HCUP)
HCUP is the United States of America's most comprehensive source of hospital care data, including information on inpatient stays, ambulatory surgery and service visits, and emergency department encounters. HCUP enables researchers, insurers, policymakers, and others to study health care delivery and patient outcomes over time and at the national, regional, state, and community levels. HCUP is a unique data source that provides approximately 35 million records annually.
Study design
Registry
Number of participants at first data collection
~35,000,000 (records annually)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
Varied (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
1988
Primary Institutions
Department of Health & Human Services (HHS)
Profile paper DOI
Not available
Funders
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Healthcare data
Engagement
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