National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers practical, research-based tools and other resources to help a variety of health care organizations, providers and others make care safer in all health care settings.
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1-10 of 14 Resources displayedThe CAHPS Database (formerly known as the National CAHPS Benchmarking Database) is the repository for data from selected CAHPS surveys. The primary purpose of the CAHPS Database is to facilitate comparisons of CAHPS survey results by and among survey users. To support the use of CAHPS survey results, the CAHPS Database offers products and services that include comparative benchmark results, custom analyses, and data for research purposes. Participation in the CAHPS Database is free and open to all survey users.
These HCUP Statistical Briefs provide general statistics about the cost of hospital stays in the United States, including the most costly conditions (diagnoses) and procedures.
These HCUP Statistical Briefs provide statistics about injuries that result in emergency department visits. Topics include sports-related injuries, motor vehicle accidents, firearm-related injuries, and bicycle-related injuries that result in visits to the emergency room.
These HCUP Statistical Briefs provide general statistics about hospital stays in the United States, including an overview of the most frequent conditions (diagnoses) seen and the most frequent procedures performed in hospitals.
These HCUP Statistical Briefs provide statistics about potentially preventable or avoidable hospitalizations in U.S. hospitals.
These HCUP Statistical Briefs provide statistics about readmissions to U.S. hospitals, including readmissions involving specific conditions (diagnoses) and procedures.
HCUPnet is a free, on-line query system based on data from HCUP. The system provides health care statistics and information for hospital inpatient, emergency department, and ambulatory settings, as well as population-based health care data on counties.
The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) is the only all-payer pediatric inpatient care database in the United States, containing data from two to three million hospital stays. Its large sample size is ideal for developing national and regional estimates and enables analyses of rare conditions, such as congenital anomalies, as well as uncommon treatments, such as organ transplantation.
Children can be identified by the age variables in the MEPS-Household Component, allowing most MEPS analyses to be performed for children.
MEPS provides state-level health insurance data for employer-sponsored plans through the MEPS-Insurance Component. Beginning in 2004, MEPS-IC also provides a subset of these data for selected metropolitan areas.