National Home and Hospice Care Survey
Title URL
Record Type
DataSet
Source
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC
Title Acronym
NHHCS
Source URL
Description
The National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS) is a continuing series of nationally representative sample surveys of U.S. home health and hospice agencies. It is designed to provide descriptive information on home health and hospice agencies, their staffs, their services, and their patients. NHHCS was first conducted in 1992 and was repeated in 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, and 2000, and most recently in 2007.
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Keywords
Home health care; Hospice discharges; Long-term care; Health services utilization; End-of-life care; Staffing; Medications; Activities of Daily Living; Health Care Quality Survey; Social Determinants of Health
Record History
Updated InfoPac 02/22/10 per DMM CDC
Record Identification Variable
Income before taxes;
employment;
education;
full/part-time employment
Record Originator
ROW Sciences/FDC
Reference
Compendium of Publicly Available Datasets and Other Data-Related Resources. The National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities has compiled a Compendium of Publicly Available Datasets and Other Data-Related Resources (Compendium). This free resource details publicly available data relevant to research and programs aiming to reduce health disparities. The Compendium compiles in one place descriptions of and links to public datasets and resources that include information about health conditions and other factors that impact the health of minority populations. https://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/NPA/Materials/FIHET_Data_Compendium_508_version_FINAL_11_28_2016.pdf
Related Titles
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1423
Date Revised
May 28, 2018, 1:49 p.m.
