HCUP Nationwide Emergency Department Sample
Alternate Titles(s): NEDS, HCUP NEDS, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Emergency Department Sample
UID: 10014
- Description
- The Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) is part of a family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The NEDS is the largest all-payer emergency department (ED) database in the United States, yielding national estimates of hospital-based ED visits. The NEDS enables analyses of ED utilization patterns and supports public health professionals, administrators, policymakers, and clinicians in their decisionmaking regarding this critical source of care.
- Publisher
- Timeframe
- 2006 - Present
- Geographic Coverage
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United States
Access
- Restrictions
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Fee Required
- Instructions
- NEDS release data is available from 2006 through 2011 and can be purchased 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 NEDS must read and sign the Data Use Agreement for Nationwide Databases. The NEDS data set is extremely large. The data are sent in comma-separated value (CSV) format compressed with WinZip¨. In order to load and analyze the NEDS 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. Please see the following link to access the load programs for Stata.
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