Indexes, Registers, and Health Data Collection Chapter 8 Indexes, Registers, and Health Data Collection

Indexes Master Patient Index (MPI) Purpose of the MPI Automated MPI Manual MPI Avoiding duplicate MPI records Disease, procedure, and physicians indexes

Data Entry Screen for MPI

Master Patient Index Card

Disease Index

Procedure Index

Physician Index

Registers and Registries Case report forms Vital statistics Birth certificates Death certificates Operation of registers and registries

Case Abstracting Case mix analysis Automated case abstracting systems Manual case abstracting systems Data set Data dictionary

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)

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)

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

Health Care Data Collection Descriptive health care statistics Data quality Hospital-based statistics Admission data Length of stay (LOS) Discharge data