AHRQ HCUP Highlights Update - 2008 NIS Available

► 2008 Nationwide Inpatient Sample Released
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) featuring 2008 data was recently released by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The 2008 NIS contains data from over 8 million hospital stays from more than 1,000 hospitals in 42 states. It is nationally representative of all short-term, non-Federal hospitals in the United States. The NIS is the largest all-payer inpatient care database in the United States and is updated annually. It is available from 1988 to 2008, allowing analysis of trends over time.
http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/NIS_2008_INTRODUCTION.pdf

► More information about the NIS and other HCUP products can be found on the HCUP-US Web site at: http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov

► Databases and Related Tools from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
Fact Sheet

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of health care databases and related tools for research and decisionmaking. HCUP is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

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