Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Publication Details

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Publication Details

Title:

Outpatient Prescription Drugs: Data Collection and Editing in the 1996 Medical Expenditure Survey (HC-010A)

Product type:

Methodology Report 12

MEPS component:

Household Component

Publication date (print version):

June 2001

Web posting date:

August 28, 2001

Description:

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).

Pub #:

AHRQ Pub. No. 01-0002

Author(s):

Moeller JF, Stagnitti MN, Horan E

Agency:

Rockville (MD): Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

MEPS Topics:

Health Care Costs/Expenditures, Health Insurance -- Coverage, Medical Expenditures, Outpatient Visits/Use/Events and Expenditures , Pharmacies, Prescription Drugs

PDF link:

data_files/publications/mr12/mr12.pdf (704 KB)

HTML link:

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