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The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products from the United States that is developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).〔( What is HCUP? )〕 ==General Information== (HCUP ) provides access to health care databases for research and policy analysis, as well as tools and products to enhance the capabilities of the data.〔( Fact Sheet: Databases and Related Tools from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) )〕 HCUP databases combine the data collection efforts of State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal government to create a national information resource of patient-level health care data. State organizations that provide data to HCUP are called (HCUP Partners ). HCUP includes the largest collection of multi-year hospital care (inpatient, outpatient, and emergency department) data in the United States, with all-payer, encounter-level information beginning in 1988. These databases enable research on a broad range of health research and policy issues at the national, state, and local market levels, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care, and outcomes of treatments. Additionally, AHRQ has developed a comprehensive set of software tools to be used when evaluating hospital data. AHRQ's free software tools can be used not only with the HCUP databases, but also with other administrative databases. HCUP's Supplemental Files are only for use with HCUP databases. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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