AHRQ has released its newest Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) database, the 2009 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS), the largest all-payer emergency department (ED) database in the United States. The NEDS was created to enable analyses of ED utilization patterns and support decision making among public health professionals, administrators, policymakers, and clinicians. The NEDS contains information that is important for research applications, including hospital characteristics, patient characteristics, geographic region and the nature of the ED visits. It also provides information on "treat-and-release" ED visits, as well as ED visits in which the patient was admitted to the same hospital for further care. The database includes all visits regardless of payer – including persons covered by Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and the uninsured. The 2009 NEDS contains data from nearly 29 million ED visits and encompasses all-encounter data from more than 950 hospital-based EDs in 29 States. It approximates a 20-percent stratified sample of EDs from community hospitals. Weights are provided to calculate national estimates pertaining to the approximately 130 million ED visits that took place in 2009. The 2009 NEDS can be purchased through the HCUP Central Distributor. Statistics from the NEDS are available on HCUPnet, the free online query system. More information about the NEDS can be found on the HCUP-US Website.
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HCUPnet: A tool for identifying, tracking, and analyzing national hospital statistics
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