Research Guides: Health and Medical Statistics: General Health Statistics

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) 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.
CDC National Center for Health Statistics
CDC Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Data.world Data.World is a social network geared toward helping researchers find collections of data. On the inside, Data.World looks a lot like Facebook. Each user gets a profile with a picture and their name and the ability to upload data sets. There is also a “feed” component. Rather than people, Data.World allows users to follow specific data sets. If you have questions on how to use this site, please email help@data.world.
Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) HCUP is the Nation's most comprehensive source of hospital care data, including information on in-patient stays, ambulatory surgery and services visits, and emergency department encounters. HCUP enables researchers, insurers, policymakers and others to study health care delivery and patient outcomes over time, and at the national, regional, State, and community levels.
Health Care Financing Administration Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Research, Statistics, Data & Systems
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report For the 16th year in a row, AHRQ is reporting on healthcare quality and disparities. The annual National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report is mandated by Congress to provide a comprehensive overview of the quality of healthcare received by the general U.S. population and disparities in care experienced by different racial and socioeconomic groups. The report is produced with the help of an Interagency Work Group led by AHRQ.
National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology
NIH HSRProj (Health Services Research Projects in Progress)
NLM Health Services Research & Public Health HSRIC
Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, Health Data Tools and Statistics Links to health statistics and data sets as well as resources to support data collection. A collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations and health sciences libraries
U.S. Census Bureau American FactFinder
U.S. Census Bureau Health Insurance Data Data are facts on people, places and business collected in censuses and surveys and through administrative records (e.g., birth certificates). The results released based on these data collections are often called statistics.
U.S. Census Bureau Statistical Abstract The U.S. Census Bureau terminated the collection of data for the Statistical Compendia program effective October 1, 2011. The Statistical Compendia program is comprised of the Statistical Abstract of the United States and its supplemental products—the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book. To access the most current data, please refer to the organizations cited in the source notes for each table of the Statistical Abstract.