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

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

3. Data Entry Screen for MPI

4. Master Patient Index Card

5. Disease Index

6. Procedure Index

7. Physician Index

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

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

10. 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)

11. 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)

12. 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

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