Title: |
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Outpatient Prescription Drugs: Data Collection and Editing in the 1996 Medical Expenditure Survey (HC-010A) |
Publication date (print version): |
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June 2001 |
Description: |
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This report describes the procedures adopted to collect and edit these prescription drug data for public release. It includes efforts made to retrieve complete and /or partially missing pharmacy data, the editing techniques used to fill in remaining missing data in the pharmacy database, and the matching/imputation procedure that linked every prescription drug mentioned by the respondent in the MEPS Household Component to a specific prescription drug from the Pharmacy Component (part of the Medical Provider Component). |
Author(s): |
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Moeller JF, Stagnitti MN, Horan E |
Agency: |
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Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality |