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August 2008
 HCUP Facts & Figures: Statistics on Hospital-Based Care in the United States, 2006
The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (H-CUP) of the federal Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality provides targeted analysis of important trends organized around
high-interest topics hospital and discharge characteristics, diagnoses,
procedures, costs, and charges.
For this report, H-CUP focused on hospitalizations related to four of the
priority health conditions designated by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in its
report, Priority Areas for National Action: Transforming Health Care Quality;
these are childbirth, depression, cancer, and asthma. H-CUP also tracked
statistics for arthritis because it frequently affects individuals covered by
government programs.
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