Chapter 7: Indexes, Registers, and Health Data Collection
Copyright ©2005 Delmar Learning, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.7-2 Indexes Master Patient Index (MPI) –Purpose of the MPI –Automated MPI –Manual MPI –Avoiding duplicate MPI records Disease, procedure, and physicians indexes
Copyright ©2005 Delmar Learning, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.7-3 Registers and Registries Case report forms Vital statistics –Birth certificates –Death certificates Operation of registers and registries
Copyright ©2005 Delmar Learning, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.7-4 Case Abstracting Case mix analysis Automated case abstracting systems Manual case abstracting systems Data set Data dictionary
Copyright ©2005 Delmar Learning, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.7-5 Health Care Data Sets Data Elements for Emergency Department Systems (DEEDS) Essential Medical Data Set (EMDS) Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) Minimum Data Set (MDS) National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
Copyright ©2005 Delmar Learning, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.7-6 Health Care Data Sets (Continued) Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) JCAHO ORYX Initiative Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set (UACDS) Uniform Clinical Data Set (UCDS) Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS)
Copyright ©2005 Delmar Learning, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.7-7 Health Care Data Sets (Continued) Medical Information Bureau (MIB) –Clearinghouse of medical and avocation information National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) –Legislated by the Health Care Quality and Improvement Act of 1986
Copyright ©2005 Delmar Learning, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.7-8 Health Care Collection Descriptive health care statistics Data quality Hospital-based statistics –Admission data –Length of stay (LOS) –Discharge data