VIReC provides detailed and summary information on VA and Non-VA data sources of particular
relevance to VA research. The VA maintains numerous national, VISN-level,
and local facility data sources. (See Introduction to VA Data.) Other government agencies and non-profit organizations
maintain databases with service-related information.
VA
Data Sources
-
VA-CMS Data For Research
- Patient
Assessment Data
Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment data on residents of long-term care facilities
certified to participate in Medicare/ Medicaid or operated by the VA.
- MCBS
Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) provides a sample
of aged, disabled, and institutionalized Medicare beneficiaries.
- Medicaid
Data available: person summary (PS), other services (OT), inpatient
(IP), prescription drug (RX), long term care (LT).
- Medicare
Data for veterans found in the VHA cohort, stay-level data,
institutional claims and
non-Institutional claims data, data for all Medicare Beneficiaries.
- ADUSH Monthly Enrollment File
Assistant Deputy Under Secretary (ADUSH) Enrollment File provides
National statistics on VHA expenditures, enrollment, and patients
for use in forecasting enrollment, expenditures, and performing
policy analysis.
- BIRLS
Beneficiary
Identification & Records
Locator System (BIRLS) - Death File
is an extract of the BIRLS Veterans Benefits Administration
(VBA) database containing records of all beneficiaries.
- DSS
Decision Support System (DSS) data contains Local-
or facility-level Production Databases and National Data Extract
(NDE) SAS® datasets of financial and clinical
data.
- CDW
Corporate Data Warehouse
(CDW) is a national repository comprising data from several
VHA clinical and administrative
systems.
- Medical SAS® Datasets
Datasets on all national inpatient
and outpatient services provided to VHA health care users.
- NPCD
National Patient Care Database(NPCD) is
the
VHA's centralized relational database that
receives encounter data from VHA clinical information systems.
- NPPD
National Prosthetics Patient Database
(NPPD) comprises transaction-level data for all orthotic,
prosthetic and sensory devices and surgical implants dispensed
to veterans nationwide.
- PBM
Pharmacy Benefits Management Database is a
national database of information on all prescriptions dispensed
within the VHA System beginning with fiscal year 1999.
- RAI-MDS
Resident Assessment Instrument - Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS):
the foundation of screening, clinical and functional status elements
of the comprehensive assessment for residents of long-term care
facilities certified to participate in Medicare and Medicaid and
VA Long-term Care or Nursing Home Programs.
- VistA
VistA is an integrated system of software applications that directly supports patient care at VHA healthcare facilities. VistA applications generate the clinical and administrative data that support day-to-day operations and contain patients' medical and healthcare utilization histories, including data on demographics, episodes of care, medicines, practitioner information, diagnoses, procedures, etc.
- VHA Vital Status File
Combines death dates from all sources currently available
to VA researchers, including the PTF (VA Inpatient), BIRLS, Medicare
Vital Status, and Social Security Administration (SSA) death file.
- VETSNET
Veterans Service Network
(VETSNET) Corporate Mini Master File consists of selected fields
from the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) Corporate Database.
Databases maintained by other government agencies and non-profit
organizations that contain data on topics such as: traumatic
head and brain injury, toxic and hazardous substances, real-time
tracking of injured, personnel, manpower, training,
financial data, etc.
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