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  National Home and Hospice Care Survey

Record Type

DataSet

Source

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC

Title Acronym

NHHCS

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

UI

1423

Date Revised

May 28, 2018, 1:49 p.m.