300.801.51
SS/R: Overview of United States Health Care Provider Surveys
Course Status
Cancelled
Course Status
Cancelled
Location
Washington, DC
Term
Winter Institute
Department
Health Policy and Management
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2017 - 2018
Instruction Method
TBD
Start Date
Thursday, January 11, 2018
End Date
Friday, January 12, 2018
Th, F, 8:30am - 4:50pm
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Pass/Fail
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
One Year Only
Resources
Prerequisite
Prior to course enrollment, students should have already completed at least one biostatistics course.
How do public health policymakers and practitioners monitor health problems and track implementation of health policies and programs? How do health services researchers and epidemiologists understand trends in health, health care delivery, risk factors, and outcomes? They need accurate, reliable, and timely representative health and health care data. This course provides an overview of some of the nation’s major data collection efforts in health care establishments in the United States and is intended for students interested in learning about how national surveys are conducted by federal health statistics agencies.
Provides an overview of some of the nation’s major data collection efforts in healthcare establishments in the United States. Introduces establishment-based surveys conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, covering policy-relevant topics including health care provider and practice characteristics, and the provision of services in inpatient, outpatient, ambulatory, long-term, and hospice care settings.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe major national data collection efforts conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics in U.S. households and health care establishments
- Discover the complexity in survey designs, development, and operations employed in national data collection efforts
- Identify and compare national health and health care survey data
- Critique research studies that use national health and health care survey data
This course will be offered for 2 days in the HPM Winter Institute. Students are required to complete readings prior to the start of the course. The final assignments will be due no later than February 2, 2018.