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Trends in Hospital and Health Personnel in the United States and Canada, 1968-1991 (ICPSR 6243)
Released/updated on: 2024-02-14
Geographic coverage: Canada, United States, Global
Time period: 1968-01-01--1991-01-01
The major objective of this study was to develop a new data resource for crossnational comparisons of health care systems. To that end, the project compiled data from the United States and Canada to compare the number of health personnel per capita in these two countries. The collection comprises three data files: one file with data from the United States and two files with Canadian data. Part 1, the United States file (named the HWKXTRCT file by the principal investigators), contains records of respondents employed in health industries and occupations extracted from the United States Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey Annual Demographic (March) Files for 1968 through 1992. Variables in Part 1 include age, educational attainment, race, sex, ethnic origin, wage or salary income, self-employment income, health industry group and occupation, and labor force status during the last week. This file also includes recoded variables generated by the principal investigators, such as annualized hours worked in principal employment, and wages adjusted to 1991 United States dollars. The two Canadian files, Parts 4 and 7, contain custom tabulations generated from the 1971 and 1986 Censuses of Canada. These tabulations give the number of persons in Canada employed for 1-19, 20-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, and 50+ hours per week by sex, occupation, industry, and the number of weeks worked during the previous year.
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Use of Radiology and Laboratory Tests Among Selected Inpatients in Canadian and United States Hospitals, 1990-1991 (ICPSR 6539)
Released/updated on: 1998-06-12
Geographic coverage: Canada, United States, Global
Time period: 1990-01-01--1991-01-01
The purpose of this study was to compare the use of radiology and laboratory tests provided to inpatients admitted with specific medical and surgical Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) to four hospitals in the United States and four hospitals in Canada. These DRGs covered specific cerebral vascular accidents (except transient ischemic attack), simple pneumonia and pleurisy with complications and comorbidities (CC), acute myocardial infarction with CC, acute myocardial infarction without CC, appendectomy with CC, major joint or limb reattachment procedures, hip and femur procedures with major joint procedure, uterine/adnexa procedures for nonmalignancy with CC, and uterine/adnexa procedures for nonmalignancy without CC. Patient admissions are the units of observation. For each patient admission, relative value units are given for radiology and laboratory tests that were administered, including biochemistry tests, hematology/coagulation tests, vascular radiology tests, nuclear medicine tests, ultrasound tests, and X-rays. Additional data cover patient age, gender, length of hospital stay, and principal discharge diagnosis.