abstract:The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP, pronounced "H-Cup") is a family of health care databases and related software tools and products from the United States that is developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). What is HCUP?
The HealthcareCostandUtilizationProject attributes 13 million outpatient doctor visits per year to asthma, along with two million trips to the emergency room.