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