Research Guides: Health Information Management: Statistics & Data

Related Guides

Statistical sources may contain demographic information, health and disease prevalence, mapping tools in order to visualize information as well as many other options. This list covers several but there may still be more available and new sources develop all the time. Additional sources may found using these research guides:

U.S. Federal Statistics

Statistical Abstract of the United States
Provides a collection of U.S. social, political and economic statstics.

National Vital Statistics System
Information gathered from the various jurisdictions legally responsible for registration of vital events - births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths.
National Survey of Family Growth

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, Data Access

Research Data Center
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
Data Linkage Activities
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
CDC Fast Stats
Statistics by topic. Fast Stats iOS and Android app is available.

CDC Survey and Data Collection Systems

National Health Care Surveys
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
Assess health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States
National Vital Statistics System
Information gathered from the various jurisdictions legally responsible for registration of vital events - births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and fetal deaths.
National Survey of Family Growth

International Statistics

Quality Indicators and Statistical Data

AHRQ Inpatient Quality Indicators
a set of measures that provide a perspective on hospital quality of care using hospital administrative data
Health Indicators Warehouse
Maintained by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Data provided by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Health and Human Services and Health Resources and Services Administration
National Ambulatory Health Care Data
National Hospital Care Survey
National Survey of Residential Care Facilities
National Study of Long-Term Care Providers

Mental and Behavioral Health Data

Public Health Informatics

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Public Health Information Network
Immunization Information Systems (IIS)
Confidential, population-based, computerized databases that record all immunization doses administered by participating providers to persons residing within a given geopolitical area.- From the CDC website

Health Map

HealthMap.org
An established global leader in utilizing online informal sources for disease outbreak monitoring and real-time surveillance of emerging public health threats.- From Healthmap.org website

HealthIT.gov

21st Century Cures Act
Laws and Regulations, healthit.gov
Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
ONC is a federal staff division that support the adoption of health information technology and the promotion of nationwide, standards-based health information exchange to improve health care. ONC is within the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and was created by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) of 2009.

World Health Organization

Global Health Repository
WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation - From WHO website
Telemedicine: Opportunities and developments in Member States

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

Finding Data Tools and Tips

Finding data tools

Library catalogs, research guides and databases

Library Search (catalog)
Library Search is the catalog to all library materials, including data available in print, CD-ROM, and online through subscribed databases. Try different methods: (1) add "statistics OR data" to your keywords; (2) in advanced search enter statistics or data as a subject or as form/genre; (3) use a Library of Congress Subject Heading as subject and add a word for topic and look for dataset filter; (4) add topic as title or keyword and filter by form/genre. For a state, select subject and enter a search string with the state name. For example: "Crime -- Pennsylvania-- Periodicals " or "criminal statistics -- Pennsylvania-- Periodicals"

Search for relevant Temple Library Research Guides or at LibGuides Community. Guides for a specific topic or issue or survey can also be searched using Google or other search engine and adding "Login to Libapps" OR "libguide" to the search term and optionally limiting site to .edu.
Use Temple Libraries' A to Z list of databases to search for data related databases.

Data Citation Index
Data Citation Index searches over 380 data repositories worldwide and gives a description of the study or experiment, links to data and software and other studies citing the data.

Searching is by keywords. The subject descriptor appears to have a small number of biological and medical terms.

How to search on the Web of Science and save results and create alerts.

Training portal, training video library, and Data Citation Index video

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Statistical Abstract of the United States (1878-2012)
Statistical Abstract of the United States provides a collection of statistics on the social, political and economic conditions of the United States.

The first link is to the 2022 ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the U.S. 2022 Online Edition.

Statista

Statista provides access to quantitative facts by market sector, including agriculture, finance, and politics. Statista is a statistics portal that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform. Sources of information include market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.
Sage Research Methods Online
This database may have training data, such as the GSS data to be used with SPSS. There are handbooks to understand survey methodology and statistics.

Search engines

Google can be used to search by adding "statistics" "database" or "data set" or data to the search terms. Other useful search engine websites include:

USA.gov
Google Dataset Search
Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web as well as some subscription-based databases. It is similar to Web of Science Data Citation Index, but is not human indexed, has many duplicates, less refined search filters, and lacks studies citing the data,
Open Data - Open Government
Harvard Think Thank Search
Think Tank Search is a customized Google Search with over 1300 URLs of US and international websites. The sites included are institutions that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. These sites are affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, and non-governmental organizations.

Data Paper and Data Journals

"A data paper is a peer reviewed document describing a dataset, published in a peer reviewed journal." Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Where to find data papers and journals

Edinburgh University wiki page listing data journals
GBIF website. GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.
The 2014 blog post by Katherine Akers lists data journals
Walters, William H.. 2020. “Data Journals: Incentivizing Data Access and Documentation Within the Scholarly Communication System”. Insights 33 (1): 18. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.510

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