Nursing Research Guide

Population, housing, income, and business statistics from the 1990 and 2000 censuses, searchable down to state, county, and place name levels.

Government statistics on diseases.

Public health data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

Charts, maps, and data related to health care quality, disparities, and health systems performance for each state in the U.S.

Health data for each county in the United States.

Find statistical data on health indicators and populations across the United States. Part of HealthyPeople 2020.

From the National Coalition for the Homeless

Search for statistics from more than 100 federal agencies.

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization publishes statistics on hospice spending, use, length of service and more.

Information from 16 states provided by the CDC website.

MEPS is the most complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage.

Weekly publication of the CDC based on reports from state health departments.

The nation’s principal health statistics agency, providing statistical information that will guide actions and policies to improve the health of the American people.

Cause-of-death information broken into geographic areas by the CDC.

This University of Pittsburgh project's mission is to advance the availability and use of public health data for science and policy making. The database includes data from all weekly notifiable disease reports for the United States dating back to 1888. These data are freely available to anybody interested.

Excellent source of government statistics. Use the index in the back of the book to find your topic (such as hospital utilization rates by sex, death by age and selected causes, etc.). Federal funding ceased for this publication in November 2011. To access the most current data, please refer to the organizations cited in the source notes for each table of the Statistical Abstract.

Annual reports including some statistics for Arapahoe, Douglas, and Adams County.

Links to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization.

Every December the AORN Journal publishes its Salary & Compensation survey for nursing.

The American Physical Therapy Association data on salaries, demographics, licensure and more. An APTA login is required for access.

The National Center for Health Workforce Analysis (NCHWA), assesses health surveys and data on the supply, use, access, need, and demand for health workers.

Nursing education statistics by the National League of Nursing.

Annual survey by Pharmacy Times magazine.

Statistical information from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and Bureau of Labor Statistics about the nursing shortage, nursing degrees, and the workforce.

Aggregate hospital data derived from the AHA Annual Survey and is the definitive source when doing trend analysis with data by bed size category , U.S. Census Divisions, States, and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CBSAs).

From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this outstanding national directory guides the user to statistics regarding the quality of hospitals, doctors, and other factors by state.

Comparisons of hospitals by mortality, cost, patient safety, number of procedures, pediatric measures, prevention, infections, and nursing sensitive measures. Comparisons include pressure ulcers, post-surgical blood clots, and bloodstream infections (sepsis). Nursing sensitive measures include practice environment scale, voluntary turnover, skill mix, nursing care hours per patient day, falls and falls with injuries, and nursing education (percentage BSNs, associate degrees, etc. at each hospital) .

Hospitals, Health plans, and physicians are rated.

Ratings of individual doctors by patients.

Report by Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Individual hospitals and their infection rates with different procedures (hip replacement, hysterectomy, etc.) are listed.

Reports from the Colorado Hospital Association.

Click "Nursing Sensitive Measures" on tan bar. The measures include practice environment scale, voluntary turnover, skill mix, nursing care hours per patient day, falls and falls with injuries, and nursing education (percentage BSNs, associate degrees, etc. at each hospital) .

Patients rate their doctors.