Health Statistics

Provides data from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample and from the State Inpatient Databases. Users can generate tables and graphs on national and regional statistics and trends for community hospitals in the U.S.

Provides limited information freely on key characteristics of individual hospitals and state and national totals.

Comparable data on quality of care at hospitals including measures for treatment of heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia.

FastStats on hospital utilization provides direct links to relevant tables from NCHS surveys and publications.

These reoccuring national surveys give provider-based data over a broad range of care settings and can be used to investigate quality, patient safety, health care disparities, diffusion of technologies, patterns of care for specific conditions, and other special topics.