Slide 9. Track 250 Measures From ~40 Databases
2009 State Snapshots
- Survey data collected from populations (N=11); examples:
- AHRQ, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center on Health Statistics (CDC-NCHS), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
- Data collected from samples of health care facilities (N=8); examples:
- American Cancer Society-American College of Surgeons, National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
- CDC-NCHS, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)
- CMS, End-Stage Renal Disease Clinical Performance Measurement Program
- Data extracted from data systems of health care organizations (N=13); examples:
- AHRQ, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databases (HCUP SID)
- CMS, Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program
- Indian Health Service, National Patient Information Reporting System (NPIRS)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Renal Data System (USRDS)
- Data from surveillance and vital statistics systems (N=5); examples:
- CDC-National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, HIV/AIDS Surveillance System
- CDC-NCHS, National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)
- NIH-National Cancer Institute, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program


5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857