Chapter 8

Indexes, Registers, & Health Data Collection

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Indexes

• Master Patient Index (MPI)– Purpose of the MPI– Automated MPI– Manual MPI– Avoiding duplicate MPI records

• Disease, procedure, and physicians indexes

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Data Entry Screen for MPI

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Master Patient Index Card

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Disease Index

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Procedure Index

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Physician Index

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Registers & Registries

• Case report forms• Characteristics of registers and registries• Vital statistics

– Birth certificates– Death certificates

• Operation of registers and registries

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Case Abstracting

• Case mix analysis• Automated case abstracting systems• Manual case abstracting systems• Data set• Data dictionary

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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)

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Health Care Data Sets (Continued)

• Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)

• Joint Commission ORYX® Initiative• Uniform Ambulatory Care Data Set

(UACDS)• Uniform Clinical Data Set (UCDS)• Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set

(UHDDS)

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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

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Health Care Data Collection

• Descriptive health care statistics– Bar graph– Pie chart– Line diagram

• Data quality– Data integrity– Data reliability– Data validity

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Health Care Data Collection(Continued)

• Hospital-Based Statistics– Admission data– Length of stay (LOS)– Discharge data