provides an overview of national statistics on hospital stays for 2005 and trends from 1993. Click here to view the Statistics on hospital-based care in the United States, 2005 (PDF file, 1,453 KB; HTML). Click here to download corresponding data tables and graphics (ZIP file).

• Care of Adults With Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorders in U.S. Community Hospitals, 2004
• Ambulatory Surgery in U.S. Hospitals, 2003
• Serving the Uninsured: Safety-Net Hospitals, 2003
• Procedures in U.S. Hospitals, 2003
• Hospitalization in the United States, 2002
• Preventable Hospitalizations, 2000
• Care of Children and Adolescents in U.S. Hospitals
• Care of Women in US Hospitals 2000
• Procedures in US Hospitals, 1997
• Hospitalization in the United States, 1997

The HCUP National Statistics Archive features a broad array of information on older HCUP databases.

present simple, descriptive statistics on a variety of specific, focused topics. Statistical Briefs are listed in chronological order.

illustrate key findings from the HCUP databases.

• Economic and Health Costs of Diabetes
• Hospital and Ambulatory Surgery Care for Women’s Cancers

based on HCUP data are available within the HCUP section of the AHRQ Web site. Publications are listed by author. Information includes title, publication, data, and sometimes access to an abstract.

A comprehensive list of AHRQ publications is also available on the AHRQ Web site.

are specific to the design and use of the HCUP databases.

• Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) reports
• Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) reports
• State Inpatient Databases (SID) reports
• State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD) reports
• State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) reports

features a broad array of methodological information on the HCUP databases and software tools. Reports in the HCUP Methods Series are listed in chronological order.

• The Value of Hospital Discharge Data (PDF file, 664 KB)