Research and Statistics
Used to sort data to assist with the study of certain data elements
What is Indexes?
Lists of recommended data elements with uniform definitions
What is data sets?
Incudes data on births, deaths, fetal deaths, marriages, and divorce
What is vital statistics?
Compiled information on groups of people or patients that does not identify any particular patient
What is aggregate data?
Creating and maintenance of registries is the responsibility of this department
What is the HIM department?
FDA
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
NCHS
What is the National Center for Health Statistics?
NCVHS
What is The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics?
NPDB
What is the National Practitioner Data Bank?
AHRQ
What is The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality?
Investigation aimed at the discovery and interpretation of facts, revision of accepted theories or laws in the light of new facts, or practical application of such new or revised theories or laws
What is research?
The proportion of people in a population who have a particular disease at a specific point in time
What is prevalence?
Vital statistics often share information with this committee
What is NCHS (National Committee of Health Statistics?
NPDB was mandated by this act of 1986
What is The Health Care Quality Improvement Act?
Another source of secondary data and a chronological listing of patients with a common characteristic
What is a registry?
This FDA act mandated the development of a clinical trial database
What is the FDA Modernization Act of 1997?
A major national public health survey, using data from health records and include information on several practice areas
What is the National Health Care Survey?
Responsibility for collection of vital statistics rest with
What is the state?
The level of detail at which the attributes and values of health care data are defined
What is granularity?
Maintains databases of cases of patients who need organ transplants
What is transplant registry?
This organization had developed the database, called ClinicalTrials.gov
What is The National Library of Medicine?
Created by the CDC, this database is an integrated information and communications system for public health
What is Wonder?
NCVHS advises and makes recommendations to
What is the federal government?
Reports to the NPDB with a list of names for those who are excluded from the Medicare/Medicaid programs
What is the HHS Office of the Inspector General?
This research goes beyond the "what" of healthcare to understand "how" to make health care safer and improve quality
What is health services research?