The Collection of Data on Hospital Patients — The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium Approach

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Data on hospital patients are used by planning and regulatory bodies to determine the future of hospitals and particular services and to establish criteria for reimbursement programs. Health planners and regulators approached hospital administrators with overlapping requests for patient data during the 1970's. Reliance on these data by federal, state, and regional health agencies led to widespread concern about the availability, quality, and comparability of the data. This article discusses one organizational approach to these concerns.The Airlie House conference of 1969 was convened by the National Center for Health Services Research, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the . . .

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