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Many organizations use data from AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to understand and make policy decisions about healthcare cost and use. Among them are:

ANSWER: D. All the above

MEPS is used extensively by the health services research community as the primary source of high-quality national data for studies related to healthcare expenditures and out-of-pocket costs and examinations of expenditures related to specific types of health conditions.

Congressional Budget Office

Health services researchers

Bureau of Economic Analysis

All the above

AHRQ’s Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of healthcare databases and related software tools and products developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership. How many national and state databases are in the HCUP family?

ANSWER: C. 8

The HCUP family is made up of 8 distinct databases, including The National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample and the Nationwide Ambulatory Surgery Sample, that contain encounter-level information for all payers compiled in a uniform format with privacy protections in place.

Which of the following types of comparative information is NOT presented on the integrated National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR) website?

ANSWER: C. Individual patient health records

NHQDR's focus areas provide aggregated data for national and state comparisons.

National and State-level comparisons with achievable benchmarks

National trends over time

Individual patient health records

State-level comparisons with national overall estimates (i.e., State Snapshots)

Which of the following statements accurately describes the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs)?

ANSWER: B. There are 101 Quality Indicators organized into four main modules and two standalone modules, primarily using hospital inpatient administrative data.

AHRQ QIs focus on inpatient data, and accessibility.

The QIs are solely focused on outpatient care and do not apply to inpatient settings.

There are 101 Quality Indicators organized into four main modules and two standalone modules, primarily using hospital inpatient administrative data.

The QIs can only be accessed through paid software subscriptions.

The QIs are designed exclusively for use by individual patients to assess their own healthcare quality.

The Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. Which one of these is not a component of the MEPS survey?

ANSWER: D. Physician Assistant.

Household

Insurance

Medical Provider

Physician Assistant

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