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Generic Data Catalog

HCUP State Inpatient Databases

Alternate Titles(s): SID, HCUP SID, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databases
UID: 10015
Description
The State Inpatient Databases (SID) are part of the family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The SID are a set of hospital databases containing the universe of the inpatient discharge abstracts from participating States, translated into a uniform format to facilitate multi-State comparisons and analyses. The SID can be used to investigate questions and identify trends unique to one State, to compare data from two or more States, and to conduct market area research or small area variation analyses.
Publisher
United States - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Timeframe
1990 - Present
Geographic Coverage
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas (state)
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York (state)
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington (state)
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Subject Domain
Delivery of Health Care
Health Care Costs
Health Care Utilization
Quality of Health Care
Keywords
Health care/utilization
Health services accessibility
Inpatients
Outcome assessment (health care)
Quality of health care

Access

Restrictions
Fee Required
Instructions
SID releases for data years 1990 through 2012 are available for purchase through the HCUP Central Distributor. Costs vary by State and data year. Prior to purchasing HCUP data, all individuals are required to take the online HCUP Data Use Agreement Training Course, and users of the SID must read and sign the Data Use Agreement for State Databases. The SID data set comes in ASCII format and can be run on desktop computers with a DVD drive. To load and analyze the SID, you will need the following: a DVD drive; a hard drive with one to four gigabytes of space available, depending on the SID being used; and SAS¨, SPSS¨, or similar analysis software. The data set comes with full documentation. SID documentation and tools, including programs for loading the ASCII file into SAS or SPSS, are also available on the SID Database Documentation page
Data Type
Administrative
Dataset Format(s)
SAS, SPSS, Stata, ASCII
Dataset Size
4GB
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