5260.0: Wednesday, October 24, 2001: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM | ||||
Oral Session | ||||
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| Recent reports from the 2000 U.S. Census emphasize the increasingly multi-racial and multi-ethnic nature of the U.S. population, as well as continuing aging of the population as the baby boom generation moves into later middle age. In the context of these demographic changes, the increasing health care needs associated with aging, the varying health care perspectives and practices of population subgroups, and disparities in the availability of health care to different socio-economic groups have enormous implications for future demands on the medical care and public health systems. The papers in this session address statistical issues in the design and interpretation of federal surveys that collect data on health care utilization that can provide the information needed to understand these implications, and prepare for the consequences of demographic change. Issues to be considered are the impact of changes in categorization of race and ethnicity on subgroup-specific estimates of immigration coverage; adjustment for progressive non-random drop-out from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; alternative sampling designs for estimating the number of institutionalized and community-dwelling persons receiving long-term care; and differences in methodology and interpretation of five federal surveys that compile information on national ambulatory care use. | ||||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement. | ||||
| Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the session, the participant should be able to: 1. Describe how changes in measurement of racial/ethnic categorization affect estimates of national vaccine coverage. 2. Recognize critical statistical issues arising in longitudinal analyses using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, and appropriate statistical techniques for dealing with time-dependent data from clustered longitudinal survey designs. 3. Delineate different definitions of the long-term care population and alternative sampling methodologies for estimating population size, with their advantages and disadvantages. 4. Identify five distinct surveys conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services to obtain information on ambulatory care use, and relevant methodological issues in their interpretation. | ||||
| Deborah D. Ingram, PhD | ||||
| Classification of race and ethnicity in the NIS using the revised OMB standards Meena Khare, MS, Michael P. Battaglia, MS, Jacqueline Lucas, MPH, Robert A. Wright | ||||
| Estimation Strategies to Support Longitudinal Analyses of Data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Steven B. Cohen, PhD, William Yu, Janet Greenblatt | ||||
| Measuring the institutionalized and community dwelling long-term care population in national health care surveys D.E.B. Potter, MS, William D. Spector, PhD | ||||
| Measuring ambulatory care use in the United States: A comparison across selected federal surveys Steven R. Machlin, Frances Chevarley, Joshua Thorpe, Janet L. Valluzzi, MBA, OTR/L | ||||
| Discussion | ||||
| Sponsor: | Statistics | |||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work | |||