Data, Statistics, & Tools

Data Sources Available from AHRQ
This page describes AHRQ data sources for researchers, clinicians, purchasers, policymakers, or consumers.

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
Largest all-payer collection of hospital inpatient care statistical information in the United States. Includes a national database and database of states.

HIV and AIDS Costs and Use
HIV and AIDS costs and care data.

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
Longitudinal, nationally representative survey provides timely, comprehensive information on the health status of Americans, health insurance coverage, and access, use, and cost of health services.

Primary Care Workforce Facts and Stats
To further inform policy discussions around the U.S. primary care workforce, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is producing a set of fact sheets to provide health care policy and decisionmakers with information on the U.S. primary care workforce.

Request for Assistance on Health Initiatives
Summaries of staff responses to recent requests for assistance on health initiatives, and to help ensure transparency and efficiency in responding to such informational needs and requests for substantive assistance by public policymakers.

Filling the Information Needs for Healthcare Reform
A Meeting Summary of an AHRQ event held on March 19, 2009 with the purpose of developing a strategy to optimize the availability of information and data for enactment and implementation of health care reform.

United States Health Information Knowledgebase
The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) is a metadata registry of healthcare-related data standards funded and directed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with management support in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.