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Policy Issues Affecting the Medicaid Personal Care Services Optional Benefit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Policy Issues Affecting the Medicaid Personal Care Services Optional Benefit Executive Summary Simi Litval, Ph.D., and Jae Kennedy, M.A. World Institute on Disability Research and Training Center on Public Policy in Independent Living December 1991...

The Feasibility of Using Electronic Health Data for Research on Small Populations. Organizational Conditions Required for Research Combining Multiple Data Sources

Because of the previously mentioned limitations with using data from a single organization’s EHR for research, the ability to combine EHR data with other electronic data sources is often needed to strengthen study results, particularly for small populations. Combining EHR data across institutions can allow for a larger sample size to increase th...

The Feasibility of Using Electronic Health Data for Research on Small Populations. Health needs of the LGBT population—what’s known

In its 2011 report on The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People , the Institute of Medicine (IOM) summarized available evidence about health and health care issues faced by these populations in childhood/adolescence, early/middle adulthood, and later adulthood. 85 The experience of stigma, discrimination, and violence is repor...

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 1998. Appendix B. Poverty Data

Figure B-1. The Poverty Gap 1 and Reductions in the Gap from Cash and Non-Cash Transfers for All Persons, 1979 - 1996...

Benefits and Costs of Increased Child Support Distribution to Current and Former TANF Families

Contents Methodology Pass-through and Disregard Results Distributing All FTRO Child Support Collections to Former Welfare Families Effects on Administrative Costs Conclusion...

III. Types of Information Disseminated by the

HHS Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated to the Public. III. Types of Information Disseminated by the Agency to the Public

HRSA disseminates a range of information to the public via the HRSA web site, the HRSA Information Center, and the Office of Communications. The HRSA Information Center is a gateway to information about HRSA programs. All information supplied through this center has been cleared through HRSA and ASPA. Through the Information Center, health care pr...

HHS Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information Disseminated to the Public

This site describes the HHS Information Quality Guidelines as well as the supporting administrative mechanisms to request correction of information covered under the guidelines. The HHS Guidelines were developed in accordance with the provisions of P.L. 106-554 and OMB government-wide requirements directing all federal agencies to issue guidelines...

7. National Datasets and Data Systems Review

Understanding Disparities in Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Research Approaches and Datasets. 7. National Datasets and Data Systems Review

To determine which data systems and data sets can be analyzed to better improve our understanding of disparities among persons with MCC, the Project Team revisited the data systems and datasets that were reviewed for the first White Paper funded by this project, (Rezaee, 2013). Appendix E provides: 1) a description of each database, 2) diagnostic...

6.1.2 Methods for Imputing Race/Ethnicity

Understanding Disparities in Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Research Approaches and Datasets. 6.1.2 Methods for Imputing Race/Ethnicity

Rand Corporation developed an algorithm that incorporates U.S. Census Bureau latest surname list with a Bayesian method to integrate surname and geocode information (residence) to better estimate self-reported race/ethnicity information. The new approach greatly improved the accuracy of race/ethnic coding for Blacks and Asians, but imputing Native...

5.1.1 Observer Bias and Self Identification of

Understanding Disparities in Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Research Approaches and Datasets. 5.1.1 Observer Bias and Self Identification of Race/Ethnicity

The quality of race and ethnicity information is compromised for many reasons. Observer bias is a significant source of error because an interviewer or data collector may incorrectly classify an individual as belonging to a race or ethnicity other than the self-identified ones....

Understanding Disparities in Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Research Approaches and Datasets. 5. Challenges in Disparities Research

The quality of demographic variables, especially race and ethnicity, has suffered from inconsistencies and challenges in data collection for all types of data, not just health data. The same conditions that compromise disparities data in general, compromise disparities research on groups with MCC. Currently national surveys and databases lack stan...

APPENDIX A: FINDINGS FROM PUBLICLY ASSISTED

The "Value Added" of Linking Publicly Assisted Housing for Low-Income Older Adults with Enhanced Services: A Literature Syntheses and Environmental Scan. Appendix A: Findings From Publicly Assisted Housing with Enhanced Services Programs

HUD Congregate Housing Services Program (CHSP)...

The "Value Added" of Linking Publicly Assisted Housing for Low-Income Older Adults with Enhanced Services: A Literature Syntheses and Environmental Scan

This paper reviews the literature on effectiveness on existing models of affordable housing with health or supportive services. The review found a range of program models, including a variety of types of services, and delivery methods (congregate or scattered-site). There were benefits to residents including meeting unmet needs for services, impro...

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Environmental Scan of MLTSS Quality Requirements in MCO Contracts. Appendix A. Arizona Long-term CARE System

Element Description/Notes State and Lead Agency Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)...

Environmental Scan of MLTSS Quality Requirements in MCO Contracts

This report describes how frequently various quality requirement elements appear in managed care organization contracts, as well as some similarities and differences in the quality requirements....

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Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care. Future Sources of Information

Several research and data-gathering efforts now being planned or already underway should significantly improve our understanding of kinship care. A few of the larger efforts include:...

Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care. Gaps in Knowledge and Potential Sources of Data

This chapter includes all available information on two of the items for which Congress specifically requested information: the conditions under which children enter care and the characteristics of kinship caregivers and their households. Listed below are additional information needed and potential sources of this information....

3M Health Information Systems Grouper Systems

Understanding the High Prevalence of Low-Prevalence Chronic Disease Combinations: Databases and Methods for Research. 3M Health Information Systems Grouper Systems

All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Group (APR-DRG) References: 1 3M Health Information Systems. All Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (APR-DRGs) Methodology Overview (2003). http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/nation/nis/APR-DRGsV20MethodologyOverview......

Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 directed the Secretary of HHS to develop this report to Congress. This report was prepared with the input of the Advisory Panel on Kinship Care which met in October 1998 and January 1999. The report has two parts. Part I reviews the academic and related research literature on kinship care, including what...

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B. Issues for Policymakers and Practitioners to

Identifying and Serving LGBTQ Youth: Case Studies of Runaway and Homeless Youth Program Grantees. B. Issues for Policymakers and Practitioners to Consider

The case study findings point to four issues related to serving LGBTQ RHY for policymakers and practitioners to consider: (1) ensuring consistency and accuracy in collecting data on clients’ sexual orientation and gender identity, (2) providing guidance on management and analysis of these data, (3) providing technical assistance to agencies whos...

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