Author: Pennsylvania Economy League. Western DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health administration
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Inventory of Public Health Services, Personnel, and Relevant Data
Author: Pennsylvania Economy League. Western DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public health administration
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
Author: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality/AHRQPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN: 1587634333
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This User’s Guide is intended to support the design, implementation, analysis, interpretation, and quality evaluation of registries created to increase understanding of patient outcomes. For the purposes of this guide, a patient registry is an organized system that uses observational study methods to collect uniform data (clinical and other) to evaluate specified outcomes for a population defined by a particular disease, condition, or exposure, and that serves one or more predetermined scientific, clinical, or policy purposes. A registry database is a file (or files) derived from the registry. Although registries can serve many purposes, this guide focuses on registries created for one or more of the following purposes: to describe the natural history of disease, to determine clinical effectiveness or cost-effectiveness of health care products and services, to measure or monitor safety and harm, and/or to measure quality of care. Registries are classified according to how their populations are defined. For example, product registries include patients who have been exposed to biopharmaceutical products or medical devices. Health services registries consist of patients who have had a common procedure, clinical encounter, or hospitalization. Disease or condition registries are defined by patients having the same diagnosis, such as cystic fibrosis or heart failure. The User’s Guide was created by researchers affiliated with AHRQ’s Effective Health Care Program, particularly those who participated in AHRQ’s DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions About Effectiveness) program. Chapters were subject to multiple internal and external independent reviews.
Inventory of U.S. Health Care Data Bases, 1976-1983
Author: Ross M. MullnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Information storage and retrieval systems
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
"Contains summary information about the nonbibliographic machine-readable data bases containing national-level health care data pertaining to periods between January 1, 1976 and December 31, 1983 that have been created by public and private sector organizations throughout the United States and that are available to researchers outside the sponoring organizations." Arranged alphabetically by sponsors and by titles. Each entry gives purpose and scope, subject headings, input source, universe, frequency, year for which tapes are available, availability, cost, contact, publications, and other information. Miscellaneous indexes.
The Future of Public Health
Author: Committee for the Study of the Future of Public HealthPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309581907
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309140129
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The goal of eliminating disparities in health care in the United States remains elusive. Even as quality improves on specific measures, disparities often persist. Addressing these disparities must begin with the fundamental step of bringing the nature of the disparities and the groups at risk for those disparities to light by collecting health care quality information stratified by race, ethnicity and language data. Then attention can be focused on where interventions might be best applied, and on planning and evaluating those efforts to inform the development of policy and the application of resources. A lack of standardization of categories for race, ethnicity, and language data has been suggested as one obstacle to achieving more widespread collection and utilization of these data. Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data identifies current models for collecting and coding race, ethnicity, and language data; reviews challenges involved in obtaining these data, and makes recommendations for a nationally standardized approach for use in health care quality improvement.
Public Health Service Publication
Author: Preliminary Inventory of the Records of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Record Group 235
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Public Health Reports
Author: Directory of Automatic Data Processing Systems in the Public Health Service
Author: United States. Public Health ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic data processing departments
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Local Health Organization and Staffing Within Standard Metropolitan Areas
Author: United States. Public Health Service. Division of General Health ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health boards
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description