HCUP Kids' Inpatient Database

Alternate Titles(s): KID, HCUP KID, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database
UID: 10013
Description
The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) is part of a family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The KID is the only all-payer database for children.The unique design of the KID enables national and regional studies of common and rare pediatric conditions. The KID can be used to identify, track, and analyze national trends in health care utilization, access, charges, quality, and outcomes.
Publisher
Timeframe
1997 - Present
Geographic Coverage
United States
Subject Domain
Population Age
Child (2 years - 12 years)
Adolescent (13 years - 18 years)
Adult (19 years - 64 years)
Newborn (under 1 month)
Infant (1 month - 23 months)
Keywords

Access

Restrictions
Fee Required
Instructions
The KID is released every 3 years, beginning with the 1997 data year; the most recent release is the 2009 KID. The databases are available for purchase through the HCUP Central Distributor. Prior to purchasing HCUP data, all individuals are required to take the online HCUP Data Use Agreement Training Course, and users of the KID must read and sign the Data Use Agreement for Nationwide Databases. The KID is distributed as fixed-width ASCII formatted data files compressed with SecureZIP from PKWARE. To load and analyze KID data on a computer, you will need the following: a dvd drive; a hard drive with 15 GB of space available; a third-party zip utility such as ZIP Reader, 7-Zip, or WinZip; and SAS, SPSS, Stata or similar analysis software. The data set includes weights for producing national and regional estimates. KID documentation and tools, including programs for loading the ASCII file into SAS, SPSS, or Stata, are also available on the KID Database Documentation page.
Data Type
Dataset Format(s)
SAS, SPSS, Stata, ASCII
Dataset Size
15GB
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