HCUP State Emergency Department Databases

Alternate Titles(s): SEDD, HCUP SEDD, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Emergency Department Databases
UID: 10017

Description
The State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) are part of the family of databases and software tools developed for the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). The SEDD are a set of databases that capture discharge information on all emergency department visits that do not result in an admission. The SEDD combined with SID discharges that originate in the emergency department are well suited for research and policy questions that require complete enumeration of hospital-based emergency departments within market areas or States.
Publisher
Timeframe
1999 - Present
Geographic Coverage
Arizona
California
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas (state)
Kentucky
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York (state)
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Vermont
Wisconsin
Subject Domain
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Access

Restrictions
Fee Required
Instructions
SEDD releases for data years 1999 through 2011 are available for purchase through the HCUP Central Distributor. Costs vary by State and data year. Prior to purchasing HCUP data, all individuals are required to take the online HCUP Data Use Agreement Training Course, and users of the SEDD must read and sign the Data Use Agreement for State Databases. The SEDD data set comes in ASCII format and can be run on desktop computers with a DVD drive. To load and analyze the SEDD, you will need the following: a DVD drive; a hard drive with one to four gigabytes of space available, depending on the SID being used; and SAS, SPSS, or similar analysis software.
Data Type
Dataset Format(s)
SAS, SPSS, Stata, ASCII
Dataset Size
4GB
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