Upcoming Events

Mar 6 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research In Search of a Claims-Based Hospitalization Risk Prediction Model Harold Carmel, MD, Vice President for Clinical Services, Care Management Technologies Consulting Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University School of Medicine -- Duke, Developmental Epidemiology & Services, Brightleaf Square, Main St. Durham
Mar 12 3-5 pm	AHRQ/NRSA Seminar Using qualitative methods to inform quantitative methods Jennifer Craft-Morgan -- Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conf Rm
Mar 19 3-5 pm	AHRQ/NRSA Seminar Long term acute care study Kathleen Dalton -- Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conf Rm
Mar 20 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research Global Mental Health: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Grieving Youth in Tanzania Karen E. O'Donnell, Ph.D. Associate Professor Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics Duke University Medical Center -- Duke Developmental Epidemiology & Services, Suite 22, Brightleaf Sq., 905 W. Main St., Durham, NC
Apr 2 3-5 pm	AHRQ/NRSA Seminar Understanding high financial performance in Critical Access Hospitals: A mixed methods approach George Pink -- Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conf Rm
Apr 3 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research 50 States as Laboratory: Quasi-Experimental Panel-Data Methods Philip J. Cook, PhD ITT/Terry Sanford Professor Public Policy, Professor of Economics and Sociology, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University -- Duke, Developmental Epidemiology & Services, Brightleaf Square, Main St. Durham
Apr 23 3-5 pm	AHRQ/NRSA Seminar Giselle Corbie-Smith The IOM committee on CER standards -- Sheps Center, Rosenfeld Conf Rm
May 1 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research Mandating Community Treatment for Mental Illness John Monahan, Ph.D. John S. Shannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences University of Virginia -- Duke Developmental Epidemiology & Services, Brightleaf Sq, Durham, NC
May 15 9-10:30am	UNC/Duke Program in Mental Health Services & Systems Research Bringing Mental Health into the Mainstream of Healthcare Quality Measurement Harold A. Pincus, MD Professor and Vice Chair for Strategic Initiatives Department of Psychiatry Columbia University Director of Quality and Outcomes Research, New York-Presbyterian Hospital -- Sheps Center 1st flr , DeFriese Room 150
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What's New?

The American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute has released an update to their online, interactive atlas of the surgical workforce in the US. This updated version includes data on surgical sub-specialties, population data, and health access indicators. [Atlas]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released the Spring 2011 Allied Health Job Vacancy Tracking Report. [report]
The NC Health Professions Data System has released the 2010 health professions data. [Data book] [Data]
The NC Health Profession Data System has released the Fall 2010 Allied Health Job Vacancy Tracking Report. [cover letter] [report]
Tom Ricketts, PhD, Sheps Center, was appointed to the National Health Care Workforce Commission. [news release]
The 2009 NC Health Professions Data are now available. [Data book] [Data]
The American College of Surgeons Health Policy Research Institute has released an online, interactive atlas of the surgical workforce in the US. [Atlas] [Press release]
The NC Health Professions Data System has released a new report entitled, "Trends in the Supply of Pharmacists in North Carolina," [link to report]

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Sheps Center Data Sources

CCQI - Carolina Cost and Quality Initiative

A collaborative partnership between UNC’s School of Public Health and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research to build, maintain and oversee the use of data on health care services provided to North Carolina residents, and to promote the use of these data for research. Data from public and private payers populate the patient specific database. Periodic updates from the payers keep the research database current and relevant.

MarketScan^®Commercial Claims and Encounters and Medicare Supplemental Databases

The MarketScan^®Commercial Claims and Encounters and Medicare Supplemental Databases from Thomson Reuters (Healthcare) Inc. contains de-identified, person-specific health data including clinical utilization, expenditures, insurance enrollment/plan benefit, inpatient, outpatient, and outpatient prescription information. The data cover over twenty million individuals annually, and include private sector health data from approximately 100 payers, and can be linked to track detailed patient information across sites, types of providers, and over time.

North Carolina Health Professions Data System

Collects and disseminates timely and reliable data on selected licensed health professionals in North Carolina. The data includes contact, educational and practice information.

NC Discharge Data: Short Term Acute Care Hospital (Inpatient), Ambulatory Surgery, and Emergency Room

The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research is under contract with the Division of Health Services regulation to maintain, for use in research and state health planning, the NC hospital discharge data and NC ambulatory surgery data collected by Thompson Healthcare. Data from UB-92, and now UB-04, claims forms populate these databases. Yearly updates from Thompson keep the research database current.

North Carolina Rural Health Research Program Cartographic Archive

For rural parts of North Carolina and the United States, provides maps of demographics, health status indicators, health care providers and health related services.

RNDMU — Region IV Network for Data Management and Utilization

Focuses on women and infant indicators for planning and assessment.

Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research