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Health Care Utilization Project (HCUP)
AHRQ's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, a family of U.S. hospital care databases, software tools, and statistics products.
Dataset summary
- Provider
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Spatial coverage
- US
- Temporal coverage
- 2016-
- Spatial resolution
- Individual
- Temporal resolution
- -----
- Formats
- Online tools, Research databases
- Climate variable tags
- Not documented
- Observatory relevance
- North Carolina
Use guidance
- Best for
- Hospital utilization, emergency department, inpatient, and ambulatory surgery analyses where HCUP's sampling and access model fits.
- Not best for
- Open event-level downloads or real-time surveillance.
- Common pitfalls
- Treating HCUP products as one dataset with one access model.
- Ignoring sampling design, weights, and database-specific limitations.
Variables and notes
- Comprehensive ICD codes, sociodemographics, etc. - however, no date of visit, only month.
Related learning resources
Use these guides to interpret the variable, scale, format, and workflow choices before using this dataset in a climate-health analysis.