HCUP-US NIS Overview

HCUP-US NIS Overview

HCUP 2017 NIS Now Available!

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) announces the release of the following

database: 2017 National Inpatient Sample (NIS). The NIS is the largest publicly available inpatient healthcare database in the United States –covering all patients, regardless of expected payer for the hospital stay.

The 2017 NIS is drawn from the HCUP State Inpatient Databases (SID) and includes more than 7 million hospital inpatient records from 47 States and the District of Columbia, covering more than 97 percent of the U.S. population.

HCUP nationwide and State-level HCUP databases (including the 2017 NIS) are available for purchase through the HCUP Central Distributor.  Applications are available at: www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/tech_assist/centdist.jsp.