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Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care at the Indiana University School of Medicine and Health Care Excel (HCE), a non-profit provider of health-care review and quality improvement services, have undertaken a three-year project to assess the quality of health care provided to older adults, especially lower-income urban residents.
The project will determine the kinds of medical resources the population
uses, the quality of the health care received and the cost to the Medicare
program for providing
that care.
Investigators are being led by Drs. Christopher Callahan, Michael Weiner (see Links, page 6) and John Lewis.
The new study will use Medicare data as well as data from the Regenstrief Medical Records System (RMRS).
The RMRS, which contains a quarter century of in-patient and out-patient information, is a unique database of laboratory and test results, vital signs, progress notes, prescription data, diagnoses and other clinical information. Given the large amount of data and the regions being analyzed, researchers are anticipating results that will apply to many areas of the United States.
http://www.indiana.edu/currentnr.html
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