Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP)
HCUP is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and roducts developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by AHRQ. Through the CDC DataHub, hospitalization and emergency department visits data are analyzed for asthma by available demographic characteristics to inform public health professionals, the public, and national, state, and local decisionmakers on the state of asthma.
(CDC/NCEH/DEHSP/AAQB uses these data as is [no questions added] from AHRQ Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety [via CDC Data Hub] to conduct national surveillance on asthma-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits)
Complete Metadata
| @type | Dataset |
|---|---|
| accessRights | restricted public |
| contactPoint |
[ { "fn": "CDC Data Hub", "@type": "Kind", "hasEmail": "mailto:DataHubSupport@cdc.gov" } ] |
| description | HCUP is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and roducts developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by AHRQ. Through the CDC DataHub, hospitalization and emergency department visits data are analyzed for asthma by available demographic characteristics to inform public health professionals, the public, and national, state, and local decisionmakers on the state of asthma. (CDC/NCEH/DEHSP/AAQB uses these data as is [no questions added] from AHRQ Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety [via CDC Data Hub] to conduct national surveillance on asthma-related hospitalizations and emergency department visits) |
| identifier | https://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/nedsoverview.jsp |
| inventoried | 2026-09-27 |
| publisher |
{ "name": "National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice (DEHSP), Asthma and Air Quality Branch (AAQB)", "@type": "Organization", "subOrganizationOf": [ { "name": "Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Dataset accessed via CDC DataHub", "@type": "Organization", "subOrganizationOf": [ { "name": "U.S. Department of Health and Human Services", "@type": "Organization" } ] } ] } |
| title | Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) |