Description
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of health care databases and related software tools developed through a federal-state-industry partnership to build a multistate health data system for health care research and decision making. The State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD), a component of HCUP, is a set of databases reflecting encounters in hospital-affiliated emergency department sites in participating states. The state emergency department encounter abstracts are translated into a uniform format to facilitate multi-state comparisons and analyses.
Supplier(s)
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Periodicity
Annual
Selected Content
The HCUP (SEDD) contains a core set of clinical and nonclinical information found in a typical discharge abstract, including all-listed diagnoses and procedures, discharge status, patient demographics and procedures, and charges for all patients regardless of payer.
Population covered
The current HCUP (SEDD) includes encounters in hospital-affiliated emergency department sites in 27 participating states.
Methodology
The HCUP (SEDD) databases are provided to HCUP by state data organizations. The composition and completeness of the data files may vary from state to state.
Interpretation Issues
The number of states in the HCUP (SEDD) varies by year.
References
National Center for Health Statistics. Health United States 2009: With Special Feature on Medical Technology. Hyattsville, Maryland. 2010; pp 452-453.