The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)

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The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)

• Data and Tools to Support Health Services
  Research and Policy Analysis
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• APHA CEI Session ? November 2006

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Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
(HCUP) THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF
MULTI-STATE, ALL-PAYER, ENCOUNTER-LEVEL, HEALTH
CARE DATA
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Goals for This CEI Session

• Describe the HCUP databases, software tools,
  and related products
• Examine HCUP features and capabilities
• Provide information about obtaining
• HCUP databases

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Faculty

• Herbert Wong, Ph.D.
• Agency for Healthcare
• Research and Quality (AHRQ)
• Chaya T. Merrill, M.P.H
• Thomson Medstat

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Overview of the Day
900 - 915 INTRODUCTION / AGENDA 915 -
945 HCUP OVERVIEW 945 - 1030 STATE
DATABASES SID, SASD AND SEDD 1030 - 1045
BREAK 1045 - 1115 DERIVATIVE DATABASES NIS
AND KID 1115 - 1215 HCUP TOOLS
PRODUCTS 1215 - 1230 WRAP-UP/EVALUATIONS
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Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
(HCUP) THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF
MULTI-STATE, ALL-PAYER, ENCOUNTER-LEVEL, HEALTH
CARE DATA