State Emergency Department Database (SEDD)

The State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) is focused on capturing discharge information on all emergency department visits that do not result in an admission, (Information on patients initially seen in the emergency room and then admitted to the hospital is included in the State Inpatient Databases (SID)). The SEDD contains emergency department information from 27 states. The SEDD contain more than 100 clinical and non-clinical variables included in a hospital dis charge abstract, such as: diagnoses, procedures, patient demographics, expected payment source and total charges.

User functionality Users must pay to access the SEDD database. SEDD files from 1999-2009 are available through the HCUP Central Distributor. The SEDD data set can be run on desktop computers with a CD-ROM reader, and comes in ASCII format.

The data on the CD set require a statistical software package such as SAS or SPSS to use for analytic purposes. The data set comes with full documentation. SAS and SPSS users are provided programs for converting ASCII files.

Data

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Data is available from 1999-2009. The website does not indicate when new data will be updated. Twenty-seven States now currently participate in the SEDD including Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, and Wisconsin.