Every two weeks or so, I wanted to highlight a medical dataset that is semi-publicly available. I say semi because some medical datasets (especially the most useful ones) require some sort of data use agreement. These agreements typically require a project statement, a signed data use agreement that you won't be anything nefarious or try to de-identify people in the dataset, and optionally but recommended human subjects training through freely available resources like CITI.

These datasets are part of a lecture I give to my students about data sources. Search the tag "medical datasets" to get a list of all blog posts.

For each dataset, we will highlight basic information.

name of the dataset.
author.
short description of purpose.
number of rows.
number of features.
general description of features.
data format (csv, sas, etc).
url link to data.
url to data dictionary.
one or two links to papers that use the dataset.