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Uniform Hospital Discharge Data - Minimum Data Set.

HRP0903101

Publication Date	1980
Page Count	27
Abstract	It is a decade since the need for a uniform minimum data set for hospitalized patients in the United States was identified. Although Florence Nightingale had advocated this idea for hospitals in Britain over a century earlier and a minimum data set had been in use for the vital registration system in the United States for a generation, the application of this simple concept to discharge abstracts for all hospitalized patients throughout the country only took concrete form at the Conference on Hospital Discharge Abstract Data in 1969. Among the results of that Conference was the development of a recommended Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) by the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics in 1972. Since the development of the original UHDDS, the concept of uniform minimum data has evolved, as well as a growth in knowledge of the range and complexity of the problems and issues surrounding the implementation of the UHDDS specifically and the uniform minimum health data set concept in general.
Keywords	Hospitals Criteria Guidelines Recommendations Patients Diagnosis Procedures Medical records Discharge(Health facilities) Uniform hospital discharge data NTISHRANHP
Source Agency	Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Development Health Research Administration
NTIS Subject Category	44T - Data & Information Systems 57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine
Corporate Authors	National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	198120

Uniform Hospital Discharge Data - Minimum Data Set.

Uniform Hospital Discharge Data - Minimum Data Set.
HRP0903101

Publication Date	1980
Page Count	27
Abstract	It is a decade since the need for a uniform minimum data set for hospitalized patients in the United States was identified. Although Florence Nightingale had advocated this idea for hospitals in Britain over a century earlier and a minimum data set had been in use for the vital registration system in the United States for a generation, the application of this simple concept to discharge abstracts for all hospitalized patients throughout the country only took concrete form at the Conference on Hospital Discharge Abstract Data in 1969. Among the results of that Conference was the development of a recommended Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (UHDDS) by the United States National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics in 1972. Since the development of the original UHDDS, the concept of uniform minimum data has evolved, as well as a growth in knowledge of the range and complexity of the problems and issues surrounding the implementation of the UHDDS specifically and the uniform minimum health data set concept in general.
Keywords	Hospitals Criteria Guidelines Recommendations Patients Diagnosis Procedures Medical records Discharge(Health facilities) Uniform hospital discharge data NTISHRANHP
Source Agency	Bureau of Health Planning and Resources Development Health Research Administration
NTIS Subject Category	44T - Data & Information Systems 57U - Public Health & Industrial Medicine
Corporate Authors	National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
NTIS Issue Number	198120