National Home and Hospice Care Survey
Alternate Titles(s): NHHCS
UID: 10107
- Description
- The National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS) is a series of surveys of a nationally representative sample of home health and hospice agencies in the United States. It provides descriptive information on home health and hospice agencies, their staff, their services, and their patients. Information collected on agencies includes the year an agency was established, the types of services provided, referral sources, specialty programs, and staff characteristics. Data collected on home health patients and hospice discharges include age, sex, race, ethnicity, services received, length of time since admission, diagnoses, medications taken, advance directives, and more. Surveys have been conducted in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2007. Sample design varies by year. The survey was redesigned and expanded in 2007 to include new data items and a supplemental survey of home health aides employed by home health and/or hospice agencies called the National Home Health Aide Survey (NHHAS).
- Publisher
- Timeframe
- 1992 -
- Geographic Coverage
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United States
Access
- Restrictions
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Free to All
- Instructions
- Survey methodology, documentation, and public-use data files are available for free online on the CDC website and through the ICPSR repository.
Observational
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