Evaluation of Health Care Cost and Utilization Project Data (HCUP) in Healthcare Research

s were reviewed and full-text articles were reviewed only after they were found to be relevant to the research project. Of the 25 Studies that were reviewed, 15 were accepted for meeting the criteria of the practicum study.

[1]  Adapting the HCUP QIs for hospital use: the experience in New York State. , 2001, The Joint Commission journal on quality improvement.

[2]  D. McClish,et al.  Using hospital discharge files to enhance cancer surveillance. , 2003, American journal of epidemiology.

[3]  A. Catlin.  Extremely long hospitalizations of newborns in the United States: Data, descriptions, dilemmas , 2006, Journal of Perinatology.

[4]  Michael Stanek,et al.  Harnessing the Power of Enhanced Data for Healthcare Quality Improvement: Lessons from a Minnesota Hospital Association Pilot Project , 2012, Journal of healthcare management / American College of Healthcare Executives.

[5]  G. Frébourg,et al.  Identifying Patients With Severe Hospital-Acquired Infections Due to Staphylococcus aureus by Using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Problems and Pitfalls , 2004, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

[6]  E. Fisher,et al.  Comorbidities, complications, and coding bias. Does the number of diagnosis codes matter in predicting in-hospital mortality? , 1992, JAMA.

[7]  W. Rudman,et al.  Identifying Domestic Violence Within Inpatient Hospital Admissions Using Medical Records , 2000, Women & health.

[8]  P. Owens,et al.  Health care for children and youth in the United States: annual report on patterns of coverage, utilization, quality, and expenditures by a county level of urban influence. , 2006, Ambulatory pediatrics : the official journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association.

[9]  P. Heagerty,et al.  Population-Based Trends in Volumes and Rates of Ambulatory Lumbar Spine Surgery , 2006, Spine.

[10]  D. McClish,et al.  Ability of Medicare claims data and cancer registries to identify cancer cases and treatment. , 1997, American journal of epidemiology.

[11]  M. Cleves,et al.  National rates of birth defects among hospitalized newborns. , 2006, Birth defects research. Part A, Clinical and molecular teratology.

[12]  Fred J. Hellinger,et al.  HIV Patients in the HCUP Database: A Study of Hospital Utilization and Costs , 2004, Inquiry : a journal of medical care organization, provision and financing.

[13]  M. Johantgen,et al.  Quality indicators using hospital discharge data: state and national applications. , 1998, The Joint Commission journal on quality improvement.

[14]  Chunliu Zhan,et al.  Nurse staffing and postsurgical adverse events: an analysis of administrative data from a sample of U.S. hospitals, 1990-1996. , 2002, Health services research.

[15]  Pamela L Owens,et al.  Acute care utilization and rehospitalizations for sickle cell disease. , 2010, JAMA.