Data sources for pharmacoeconomic and health services research

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

Volumn 54, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2601-2608

  Else, Barbara A ^a   Armstrong, Edward P ^b   Cox, Emily R ^c  

^a Center for Pharmaceutical Economics   (United States)

^b Department of Pharmacy Practice ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Health care; Pharmacists; Pharmacoeconomics; Research

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA BASE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT INFORMATION; PHARMACIST; PHARMACOECONOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0030828662     PISSN: 10792082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajhp/54.22.2601     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. Hulley SB, Cummings SR, eds. Designing clinical research: an epidemiologic approach. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1988.
2. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Automated data sources for ambulatory care effectiveness research. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1995; AHCPR publication no. 93-0042.
3. Armstrong EP, Manuchehri F. Ambulatory care databases for managed care organizations. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 1997; 54:1973-83.
4. Stempel DA, Hedblom ED, Durcanin-Robbins JF et al. Use of a pharmacy and medical claims database to document cost centers for 1993 annual asthma expenditures. Arch Fam Meet. 1996; 5(1):36-40.
5. Li JT, Xakellis G, Edell ES et al. Concentration of healthcare costs in asthma. Am J Manage Care. 1995; 1:137-40.
6. Fish CA, Kirking DM, Martin JB. Information systems for evaluating the quality of prescribing. Ann Pharmacother. 1992; 26:392-8.
7. Weiner JP, Parente ST, Garnick DW et al. Variation in office-based quality: a claims-based profile of care provided to Medicare patients with diabetes. JAMA. 1995; 273:1503-8.
8. Lewis NJW, Patwell JT, Briesacher BA. The role of insurance claims databases in drug therapy outcomes research. Pharmacoeconomics. 1993; 4:323-30.
9. Lauderdale DS, Furner SE, Miles TP et al. Epidemiologic uses of Medicare data. Am J Epidemiol. 1993; 15:319-27.
10. Hellinger FJ. The lifetime cost of treating a person with HIV. JAMA. 1993; 270:474-8.
11. Copley-Merriman C, Lair TJ. Valuation of medical resource units collected in health economic studies. Clin Ther. 1994; 16:553-68.
12. Hornbrook MC. Definition and measurement of episodes of care in clinical and economic studies. In: Cost analysis methodology for clinical practice guidelines. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1995; AHCPR publication no. 95-0001.
13. Iezzoni LI, Foley SM, Daley J et al. Comorbidities, complications, and coding bias: does the number of diagnosis codes matter in predicting in-hospital mortality? JAMA. 1992; 267:2197-203.
14. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Automated data sources for ambulatory care effectiveness research. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993; AHCPR publication no. 93-0042.
15. Marra CA, Lynd LD, McKerrow R et al. Drug and poison information resources on the Internet, part 1: an introduction. Pharmacotherapy. 1996; 16:537-46.