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Activity Number:
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579
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 6, 2009 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Health Policy Statistics
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| Abstract - #303053 |
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Title:
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Using the National Health Care Surveys to Monitor Use and Access to Health Care
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Author(s):
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Nancy Sonnenfeld*+ and Sandra L. Decker
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Companies:
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National Center for Health Statistics and National Center for Health Statistics
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Address:
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3311 Toledo Road, Hyattsville, MD, 20782,
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Keywords:
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access ; health care use ; health insurance ; Medicaid payment policy ; government statistics ; National Health Care Surveys
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Abstract:
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The National Health Care Surveys are a family of nationally-representative provider-based surveys that collect data about health-care providers, their patients, and their care. The surveys cover health care providers across a broad spectrum of ambulatory, hospital, and long-term care settings. The resulting data are used to monitor health care service delivery among different U.S. populations. The presentation will provide an overview of the surveys and the data that each collects. Examples will highlight use of provider-based data to inform our understanding of health care access, including associations between payment source and use of care in different settings; the impact of Medicaid payment policy on duration of care in physician office visits; and variation in emergency department waiting times by urban location and high poverty zip code.
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