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Appendix F: Sample of Government Data and Databases
Pages 773-778

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From page 773...
... In its effort to conduct analyses that would provide information pertinent to its charge but not available in the literature, the committee had hoped to link data from these databases with the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) data that it received on all those deployed.
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From page 774...
... TRICARE TRICARE is the DOD's collective health care program that provides health benefits for military personnel, military retirees, their dependents, and activated members of the guard and reserves. Services may be provided through managed care providers directly in DOD facilities, which include 44 inpatient hospitals and medical centers and 291 ambulatory care clinics in the United States, or through the purchased care system, which includes 379,233 network individual
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From page 775...
... , maintained by the Defense Health Service, is the centralized repository for DOD health-system data to capture, integrate, validate, and distribute health data in DOD health care networks. (http://health.mil/Libraries/OCIO_Documents/MDR_Fact_Sheet.pdf)
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From page 776...
... Medical SAS Datasets The Medical SAS Datasets contain inpatient and outpatient information. Medical SAS Datasets contain national, patient-level, and administrative data on VHA care extracted from the National Patient Care Database (NPCD, a relational database)
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From page 777...
... The committee had hoped to access numerous additional databases, including the Pharmacy Benefits Management Database (a national database of information on all prescriptions dispensed in the VHA System beginning with fiscal year 1999) and the VHA Vital Status File (which contains information for determining the vital status of veterans who enrolled in or received care from the VHA or received benefits from the Veterans Benefits Administration)
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From page 778...
... 2012. The future of health care for military personnel and veterans.
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Key Terms

  • enrollment file
  • postdeployment health
  • military personnel
  • sas datasets
  • data record

  • benefits administration
  • monthly enrollment
  • veterans benefits
  • patient treatment
  • examining physical

  • inpatient data
  • military health
  • care file
  • master file
  • clinical center

  • vital status
  • interface control
  • patient care
  • document describing
  • health assessment

  • updated monthly
  • deployment health
  • care database
  • corporate mini
  • treatment facility

  • treatment file
  • outcomes associated
  • control document
  • standard inpatient
  • veterans affairs


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