National Health Care Surveys
What are the National Health Care Surveys?
The National Health Care Surveys are a family of provider-based surveys designed to meet the need for objective, reliable information about the organizations and providers that supply health care, the services rendered, and the patients they serve. (Read more)
What's new
Re-designed National Hospital Discharge Survey:
Overview
First-time National Survey of Residential Care Facilities coming in 2010
To NSAS 2006 Data Users:
We have temporarily taken down the 2006 National Survey of Ambulatory
Surgery (NSAS) dataset to correct a problem with double coding of
certain procedure codes. Overall procedure counts will be affected, and
specific procedure estimates will also change. At this time, we do not
expect visit estimates to change, but we are conducting additional
review of all data. We hope to have the revised NSAS 2006 data set back
up soon. We advise users who have already downloaded the NSAS
micro data from our website to re-run any analyses they have conducted
on the revised version of the micro data before reporting or publishing
any 2006 NSAS data. The National Health Statistics Report #11,
titled "Ambulatory Surgery in the United States, 2006", has also been
removed from the website until it is revised.
Thank you for understanding the need for this delay.
April 15, 2009
Health care surveys conducted by NCHS
Data from the National Health Care Surveys are organized around the settings in which health care is delivered. To get survey descriptions and links to data, documentation, and reports, select a survey. Survey Overview
Ambulatory and hospital care
- Physician offices
- Emergency and outpatient hospital departments
- Ambulatory surgery facilities
- Inpatient hospital departments
Long-term care
- Nursing homes
- Home and hospice care providers
How to access micro-data not included in public use files
Accessing micro-data not included in public use files
Latest publications
The latest data from all the National Health Care Surveys. For reports for a particular survey, select the setting in which the survey was conducted.
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Topics addressed by our surveys
Data from the National Health Care Surveys have a wide variety of uses in answering key questions of interest to health services researchers and policy makers about what drives the cost and quality of health care. Select a topic to see examples of uses within each of the following areas.
- Quality, including patient safety
- Disparities in health care
- Resource use, including cost and staffing
- Diffusion
of technologies
- Drugs
- Surgical procedures
- Other
- Patterns of care for specific conditions
- Special topics
Listing of journal articles using the National Health Care Surveys Data (2005-2006)
Other news
Technical assistance and comments
The National Health Care Surveys have professionals dedicated to collecting, analyzing, and disseminating critical health care information for the entire nation. For assistance with technical questions about our surveys, or to make suggestions or comments about how we can better serve you, e-mail us.
Frequently asked questions
About the Division of Health Care Statistics
The National Health Care Survey is conducted by the Division of
Health Care Statistics (DHCS), National Center for Health Statistics.
The Division has four branches and an Office of the Director.
For more information, call: 301-458-4157
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Office of the Director 301-458-4157
Jane E. Sisk, Director
- Ambulatory and Hospital Care Statistics Branch
301-458-4600
Paul C. Beatty, Chief
- Long-term Care Statistics Branch 301-458-4747
Lauren Harris-Kojetin, Chief
- Technical Services Branch
301-458-4900
Charles Adams, Chief
Page Last Modified: April 15, 2009
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