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2: CURRENT DATA SOURCES THAT CAN SUPPORT PPG MEASURES
Pages 13-17

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... territories, New York City, and Washington, D.C., but it was designed primarily to identify outbreaks of specific diseases for rapid public health intervention, not to calculate precise incidence or prevalence rates across the country. Not all cases of the diseases receive medical care (which is how reporting usually originates)
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From page 14...
... A notable exception has been the development of the vital statistics system, a cooperative state-federal administrative data system that contains considerable health information. Data collection efforts at the national level (sponsored by the federal government or organizations with national and multistate agendas)
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From page 15...
... Some data sources provide state-level data for some, but not all, states. For example, with CDC support, 49 states and Washington, D.C., have or are planning statewide tumor registries that capture incidence rates for most cancers.
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From page 16...
... If performance measures are designed to detect changes in 3-5 years, at least two data collection points must be in the time frame of interest, and the data must be available for analysis within a reasonable time after collection. Many potential data sources for PPG monitoring may not be useful because slow turnaround times make them inaccessible in the required time frames or because policy decisions or budget constraints delay or halt continuing data collection.
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From page 17...
... offers great potential for identifying and finding methods to collect the most useful data for PPG monitoring. Identifying methods to improve data resources for PPG monitoring will be a major component of the second phase of the panel's work.
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