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New In-Depth Disease Data on Dialog

Three new databases provide unique disease content on Dialog: HIP: Hospital Inpatient Profiles (File 462), HOP: Hospital Outpatient Profiles (File 463), and ER: Emergency Room (File 454).

Timely Data Resources specializes in epidemiological databases and is the provider of Incidence and Prevalence (File 465/IAPV), a key healthcare file on Dialog and Dialog DataStar. HIP, HOP and ER complement the Incidence and Prevalence file by providing more detailed statistical information on disease control.

All three files contain information on diseases and hospital procedures in the United States. More specifically, HIP, HOP and ER provide the following information:

• Hospital Inpatient Profile (HIP) ­ provides the top six related diseases and procedures, payment source, discharge status and more for over 7,100 diseases and procedures.
  
  
• Hospital Outpatient Profile (HOP) ­ provides the top drugs prescribed, diagnostics given, providers seen, visit characteristics, payment source, disposition and more for over 2,400 diseases.
  
  
• Emergency Room (ER) ­ provides the top drugs prescribed, diagnostics given, providers seen, visit characteristics, payment source and more for over 2,600 diseases.

Who Should Use HIP, HOP and ER?

The databases will be an invaluable tool for healthcare professionals engaged in market research, new business development, information management and R&D. The files will also interest:

• pharmaceutical and biotech industries to establish which drugs have been used to treat patients and for what condition and to evaluate the size of the patient population for a particular disease
  
  
• diagnostics and devices industries to establish what equipment has been used to diagnose patients' conditions
  
  
• advertising and government agencies for raising awareness of certain conditions and avoidance of common accident and emergency incidences
  
  
• investment firms to establish which conditions are high risk or result in the highest number of deaths in hospitals; or which conditions report the highest numbers of Medicare or self-pay patients
  
  
• consulting firms that may need information on any of the applications mentioned above depending on their client base

For further guidance on how to search HIP, HOP and ER, consult the Bluesheets or contact your nearest Knowledge Center.

Sources Compiled in HIP, HOP and ER

HIP
HIP data originates from the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), which has been conducted annually since 1965 and is a national probability survey designed to meet the need for information on characteristics of inpatients discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the United States. The NHDS collects data from a sample of approximately 270,000 inpatient records acquired from a national sample of about 500 hospitals.

HOP and ER
HOP and ER data originates from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS) that is a national probability sample survey of visits to hospital outpatient departments and emergency departments conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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