166432 Course Overview

Sunday, November 4, 2007: 8:00 AM

Chaya T. Merrill, MPH, DrPH , Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC
The purpose of the first half of the presentation is to describe the Healthcare Cost and Utilizations Project (HCUP) with a focus on the State Inpatient Database (SID).

Learning Objectives:
List the specific HCUP databases and identify ways in which the databases have been used in research.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No
Any institutionally-contracted trials related to this submission?

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.