Work with Large Datasets

Use Large Datasets, Available at No Cost

Available Datasets

  • American Hospital Association annual survey
  • Area Resource Files
  • National Inpatient Sample
  • Kids' Inpatient Database (KID)
  • National Emergency Department Sample (NEDS)
  • selected State Inpatient Databases (SID)
  • selected State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD)
  • Death Master File

Data Use Process: Simple application process and a secure remote data environment

Find Large Datasets

  • The Large Dataset Inventory helps scientists find the best datasets for your project.
  • Information on 80+ local and national health datasets searchable by population, time frame, study design, unit of observation.

How to Use Large Datasets in Research

  • Find facts and figures for your proposal, manuscript, and presentation background.
  • Learn more about using Online Browsable Datasets

Consultation Services

UCSF faculty and senior staff provide advice in:

  • Study design/conceptualization
  • Addressing common methodological issues in analysis of observational data
  • Data dataset selection
  • Dataset acquisition
  • Administrative support
  • Dataset uploading and downloading
  • Query design and cohort selection
  • Dataset cleaning
  • Dataset linking
  • Programming support
  • Collaboration, building collaborative relationships for data sharing

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Acknowledgement

These services are brought to you by the Comparative Effectiveness Large Dataset Analysis Core (CELDAC) and CTSI at UCSF. CELDAC is a partnership between Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) and Academic Research Systems (ARS).

Accelerate is managed by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), part of the Clinical and Translational Science Award program funded by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (Grant Number UL1 TR000004) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Cite CTSI NIH Funding Acknowledgment: Important — All publications resulting from the utilization of CTSI resources are required to credit the CTSI grant by including the NIH Funding Acknowledgment and must comply with NIH Public Access Policy.