CASE 3-11 Joint Commission Hospital Quality Check
The Joint Commission: www.jointcommission.org
CASE 3-12 Nursing Home Comparative Data
Access the Medicare Nursing Home Compare website to search nursing homes:
http://www.medicare.gov/nhcompare/include/datasection/questions/proximitysearch.asp?bhcp=1 (Accessed by author on April 14, 2012)
CASE 3-13 Residential Care Facilities in Long-Term Care (LTC)
Access the 2010 Survey of Residential Care Facilities, National Health Survey report titled “Residential Care Facilities: A Key Sector in the Spectrum of the Long-Term Care Providers in the United States:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db78.pdf (Accessed by author on April 14, 2012)
CASE 3-17 Research Cesarean Section Trend
Access the "Recent Trends In Cesarean Delivery in The United States" from the NCHS Data Brief, No. 35 March 2010, at the CDC website:
http://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5694/ (Accessed by author on August 21, 2012)
CASE 3-19 Benchmarks for Leading Causes of Death
National Vital Statistics Reports, Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2010:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_04.pdf
CASE 3-20 Death Trends for Heart and Malignant Neoplasms
Access Table 9, Death rates by age and age adjusted death rates for the 15 leading causes of death in 2009, United States 1999-2009:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf (Accessed by author on August 28, 2012)
CASE 3-21 Principal Diagnoses and Principal Procedures for U.S. Hospitalizations
HCUP Facts and Figures 2009 – Section 2:
http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2009/section2_TOC.jsp
HCUP Facts and Figures 2009 – Section 3:
http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/factsandfigures/2009/section3_TOC.jsp
CASE 3-23 DRG 110 versus DRG 111 Cost Analysis (DRG version 10)
1994 Historical Discharge Data: http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/natstats.jsp
CASE 3-26 Systems Analysis of Health Information Management (HIM) Function from Clinical Experience
Microsoft Office Training: http://office.microsoft.com/training
CASE 3-29 Research Report Utilizing NCHS Public Database
Access the CDC database "health data interactive" and utilize the search engine tool to customize your search and narrow the variables to obtain findings of your selected group population:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hdi.htm (Accessed by author on August 21, 2012)
CASE 3-30 Septicemic Hospitalizations as Principal Diagnosis vs. Secondary Diagnosis
Access the AHRQ Septicemia in US Hospitalizations, 2009, Statistical Brief Report #122:
http://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb122.pdf (Accessed by author on August 21, 2012)
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