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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Alternate Title(s)
- CMS
- Description
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) offers researchers and other health care professionals a broad range of quantitative information on their programs, from estimates of future Medicare and Medicaid spending to enrollment, spending, and claims data, and a broad range of consumer research to help its partners and staff. CMS also conducts demonstration projects to explore alternative...
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Chronic DiseaseHealth Care SystemQuality of Health Care
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- Free to AllFee RequiredApplication Required
- Local Expert
- Tod Mijanovich
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National Health Interview Survey
- Alternate Title(s)
- NHIS
- Description
The National Health Interview Survey is a cross-sectional household interview survey. Sampling and interviewing are continuous throughout each year. The sampling plan follows a multistage area probability design that permits the representative sampling of households and noninstitutional group quarters (e.g., college dormitories). NHIS addresses topics such as health status, use of health services,...
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CancerChronic DiseaseCOVID-19Health Care SystemHealth StatusMental HealthPopulation CharacteristicsRisk Factors
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- Free to AllFee RequiredApplication Required
- Local Expert
- Lorna E. ThorpeStella Yi
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Area Health Resources Files
- Alternate Title(s)
- AHRF, Area Resource File, ARF
- Description
The Area Health Resources Files (AHRF) provide current as well as historic data for more than 6,000 variables for each of the nation's counties, as well as state and national data. They contain information on health facilities, health professions, measures of resource scarcity, health status, economic activity, health training programs, and socioeconomic and environmental characteristics. In addition,...
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Health Care SystemMedical EducationPopulation CharacteristicsRisk Factors
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- Free to All
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HCUP Nationwide Readmissions Database
- Alternate Title(s)
- NRD, HCUP NRD, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Nationwide Readmissions Database
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The Nationwide Readmissions Database (NRD) is database under the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) which contains nationally representative information on hospital readmissions for all ages, including all payers and the uninsured. The NRD contains data from approximately 18 million discharges per year (35 million weighted discharges) across most of the United States. Data elements include: Discharge...
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Health Care SystemQuality of Health Care
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- Fee Required
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NYU Dataset
Extending Health Insurance to the Working Poor: An Assessment of Health Status and Health Care Utilization Effects Among New York City Home Health Attendants
- Authors
- Beth Weitzman
- Description
This dataset was generated from a survey that studied newly-hired home health attendants and their families, using a pre- and post-program design. A total of 475 attendants were interviewed for the pre-program, and follow-up interviews were obtained from 360 of the 475 sample members. Most of the study subjects were without medical insurance until they became eligible for health benefits through their...
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Health Care SystemHealth StatusPopulation Characteristics
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- Free to AllApplication Required
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Home Health Outcome and Assessment Information Set
- Alternate Title(s)
- OASIS
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Since 1999, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has collected and reported data from home health agencies through the Home Health Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS). Data is obtained from all adult patients at Medicare and Medicaid-certified home care agencies with few exclusions (patients under the age of 18, patients receiving maternity services, and patients receiving only...
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Health Care SystemQuality of Health CareRisk Factors
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- Fee RequiredApplication Required
- Local Expert
- Chenjuan Ma
