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Select statistics are available at a national- and county-level. HCUPnet can also be used for trend analysis with healthcare data available from 1993 forward. HCUPnet also includes a feature called hospital readmissions that provides users with some statistics on hospital readmissions within 7 and 30 days of hospital discharge.
In 1989, the agency became its own operating agency within PHS, and was renamed Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) [3] by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 2159). However, AHCPR became controversial when it produced several guidelines that some thought would reduce medical drugs and procedures.
Though the medical and health services literature has a variety of definitions of readmissions, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has created a stricter set of criteria. CMS defines a hospital readmission as "an admission to an acute care hospital within 30 days of discharge from the same or another acute care hospital. [1 ...
Examples include the CAHPS Health Plan Survey, [3] the CAHPS Hospital Survey (HCAHPS), [4] and the CAHPS Clinician & Group Survey (CG-CAHPS). [5] CAHPS surveys may be administered by phone and/or mail, depending on the certification of the vendor administering the survey.
These diagnosis and procedure codes are used by health care providers, government health programs, private health insurance companies, workers' compensation carriers, software developers, and others for a variety of applications in medicine, public health and medical informatics, including:
The ATC system also includes defined daily doses (DDDs) for many drugs. This is a measurement of drug consumption based on the usual daily dose for a given drug. According to the definition, "[t]he DDD is the assumed average maintenance dose per day for a drug used for its main indication in adults." [15]
The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a globally used medical classification used in epidemiology, health management and for clinical purposes. The ICD is maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO), which is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations System . [ 1 ]
Embryonal CNS tumors like medulloblastoma are staged following a classification developed by Chang et al. [4] [5] Breast cancer: In breast cancer classification, staging is usually based on TNM, [6] but staging in I–IV may be used as well. Cervical and ovarian cancers: the "FIGO" system has been adopted into the TNM system.