Data Sources

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Standard Analytic Files (SAFs) contain inpatient, outpatient, skilled nursing facility and Hospice data for millions of publicly insured individuals across the United States.

IBM's MarketScan contains de-identified inpatient, outpatient, skilled nursing facility and drug billing data for millions of privately insured individuals across the United States.

Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a collection of healthcare databases that were developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and contain a large collection of longitudinal hospital care data

Limited data set of data provided by participating organizations (including Ohio State Wexner Medical Center) to EPIC that is continuously updated including electronic health records of hundreds of millions of patients. 

LifeScale is an Ohio State-specific, honest-broker mediated, coded-limited database developed in partnerships with Microsoft, College of Optometry, College of Dentistry, OSUCCC-James (including Tumor and Registry data) and includes data not often found in electronic medical record data. 

The Ohio State University is part of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funded National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network (PCORnet) with ~75 academic medical centers and health systems that are grouped into eight Clinical Research Networks (CRNs) spread all over the United States. 

The National Cancer Database is a clinical oncology database sourced from hospital registries in over 1500 accredited cancer facilities. As such it is a good resource for researchers looking to study a particular cancer population.

The Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results Program was developed by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to capture incidence of cancer and survival in the United States. The data within SEER databases are collected from population-based cancer registries representing approximately 48% of the U.S. Population. Utilizing SEER data, investigators can assess the associations between demographic, clinical and treatment characteristics and survival outcomes.

ORIEN is a unique alliance to integrate “big data” and data sharing for cancer research and care. ORIEN was founded by The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and Moffitt Cancer Center in May 2014 and now includes 19 member institutions.

The Federal Statistics Research Data Center (FSRDC) is a collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau to provide access to restricted individual and firm-level data from federal statistical agencies. The FSRDC provides access to many restricted-access datasets.

The NIH’s All of Us Research Program is one of the largest biomedical data resources with health data from a large group of participants from across the United States. 

As a member of the HCUP family of databases, National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS) is the largest publicly available all-payer inpatient healthcare database in the United States providing national estimates of hospital inpatient stays. 

As a member of the HCUP family of databases, Nationwide Readmission Database (NRD) is a powerful database designed to support different types of analyses involving national readmission rates for all payers and the uninsured.

Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) is a powerful database designed to support different types of analyses involving all-payer hospital-owned emergency department visits. NEDS is a part of the family of databases developed for HCUP.

Kids’ Inpatient Database (KID) is a database designed to support different types of analyses involving national hospital stays for patients younger than 21. This database contains pediatric discharges of all payers (covered by Medicaid or private insurance) as well as those who are uninsured. KID is a part of the family of databases developed for HCUP.