Assignment: 3 What Is HCUP?

Assignment: 3

What Is HCUP?

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-cup") is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal State industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. HCUP is based on statewide data collected by individual data organizations across the United States and provided to AHRQ through the HCUP partnership. HCUP would not be possible without statewide data collection projects. HCUP includes the largest collection of longitudinal hospital care data in the United States, encompassing all-payer, discharge-level information.

HCUP data are used for research on hospital utilization, access, charges, quality, and outcomes. The data are used to describe patterns of care for uncommon as well as common diseases; to analyze hospital procedures, including those that are performed infrequently; and to study the care of population sub-groups such as minorities, children, women, and uninsured people. Researchers and policymakers use HCUP data to identify, track, analyze, and compare hospital statistics at the national, regional, and State levels.

Go to: hcupnet.ahrq.gov (copy the site into your web browser and enter)

I. Click on: Create a New Analysis

II. Click on: Inpatient

III. Click on: Trends

IV. Click on: Yes

V. Click on: Diagnoses –ICD-9-CM (ICD9)

VI. Enter: Left heart failure

VII. Click: 428.1 Left Heart Failure

VIII. Click on: Create Analysis

IX. Click on: Accept

X. Click on: Graph table (to the far right - above the table)

Copy or download the graph & paste into a Word document – it should be formatted the same way you see it on the website (and readable) and answer the following critical thinking questions:

1. Analyze the trend in the number of discharges from 1993 to 2014?

2. What do you think contributes to the decline of discharges for left heart failure?

3. Why is this site using ICD-9-CM and not ICD-10-CM?

Rubric – Grading determination for Assignment 4.

Followed instructions	10 points
Graph is readable	20 points
Graph is correct	25 points
Question # 1	15 points
Question # 2	20 points
Question # 3	10 points
TOTAL	100 points