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The quality of health data obtained in a new survey of elderly Americans
— a validation study of the proposed Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR) | | Author(s) | Charles F Turner, Timothy K Smith, Leslye K Fitterman |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 52B, no 1, January 1997 |
| Pages | pp S49-S58 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Health services ; Social surveys ; Methodology ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The Medicare Beneficiary Health Status Registry (MBHSR) is a proposed new survey programme that would collect health status indicators annually for large probability samples of Medicare beneficiaries. For reasons of economy, the MBHSR would use postal survey procedures with telephone follow-up of non-respondents. Because of concerns about response rates and the validity and reliability of the data obtained by such methods, a large-scale field test was conducted, which assessed the validity of MBHSR survey reports of past medical treatment and conditions by comparing those reports with Medicare claims data. It assessed the (internal) reliability of MBHSR survey responses, by comparing responses with logically related survey questions from the MBHSR. Analyses indicate that the MBHSR survey procedures using a combination of mail data collection with telephone follow-up of non-respondents produced relatively high levels of sensitivity and specificity in identifying medical treatments and procedures previously recorded in Medicare claims data. In addition, the MBHSR Field Test obtained, in general, relatively high levels of internal consistency in survey reports. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980227015 A |
| Classmark | CC: L: 3F: 3D: 7T |
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