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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; AHRQ

This interactive tool identifies, tracks, analyzes, and compares statistics on hospital care. It is part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). With HCUPnet, users gain easy access to all national and selected state statistics about hospital admissions. These statistics can provide insight into quality of care issues.

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