2010 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample Database Now Available

The 2010 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) is now available. With national estimates of emergency department (ED) visits, the NEDS is the largest all-payer ED database in the United States and contains information about geographic, hospital, patient, and visit characteristics. It is one of the databases in the family of products generated by the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). Aggregated statistics from the 2010 NEDS can be accessed via HCUPnet, the free, online query system that uses HCUP data. A trends query for the NEDS was added to HCUPnet, providing national trends on stays and diagnoses from 2006 to 2010. The 2010 NEDS is available for purchase through the HCUP Central Distributor.