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Abstract #303388

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Activity Number: 73
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 7, 2005 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Survey Research Methods
Abstract - #303388
Title: Improving Population Surveys of Health Care Utilization
Author(s): Monroe Sirken*+
Companies: National Center for Health Statistics
Address: 3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD, 20782, United States
Keywords: health service statistics ; network sampling ; sampling effciencies ; response errors ; mean squared errors
Abstract:

Population surveys of health care utilization count the health care services received and reported by sample households. This paper describes a design strategy for improving these surveys, especially when the target populations refer to rare or elusive populations that are hard to find or when the health care variables of interest involve sensitive or technical information hard to enumerate in population surveys. The proposed strategy involves surveying the health care providers of the households enumerated in the population survey. This paper compares the sampling efficiency and data utility of three designs for sampling services rendered by health care providers of the households in the population survey. Design I links the health care services reported by households in the population survey with their health care provider records. Design II selects random samples of the health care services that the health care providers of the households in the population survey rendered to all households in the universe. Design III selects the sample of Design I plus the sample of Design II.

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