Chronic Disease Data Sources
Vermont Data Sources
- SMART: Selected Metropolitan / Micropolitan Area Risk Trends
- Hospitalization data - HCUP net "Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project"
- Population Estimates - 2005 data in Excel & PDF formats
- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - 9th to 12th grade data only
- Vermont Community Assessment System - birth & mortality data
- Vermont Uniform Hospital Discharge Data (Public Use Files)
- Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance
- Vermont Prescription Monitoring System (VPMS)
State Profiles from National Data Sources
- Cancer Planet State Profiles
- Chronic Disease Indicators - CDC and Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
- Injury Maps - mortality
- National Survey of Children's Health - Vermont profile, for children aged 0 to 17
- National Healthcare Quality State Snapshots 2007
- National Healthcare Quality Report All State Data Table for All Measures
- Vermont Hospital Report Cards (Act 53)
- National Immunization Survey
Estimates of vaccination coverage by State
National Data Sources
- Health by Target Population
- Medicare Health Outcomes Survey
- U.S. Population estimates (archived)
- National EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Information System (NEMSIS)
International Data Sources
- Information on the Occurrence of Cancer Worldwide
- WHO Mortality Database (click "WHO" on the horizontal navigation bar near the top right of the page)
Clinical Indicators
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Quality Indicators - Includes links for prevention, inpatient, patient safety and pediatric quality indicators.
- See above "State Profiles from National Data Sources" for Vermont data on clinical indicators.
- American Medical Association Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
- PDF file with codes for measures (Note: the DOQ-IT measures are a subset of these).
- Chronic condition indicator from HCUP - The Chronic Condition Indicator provides an easy way for users to categorize ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes into one of two categories: chronic or not chronic.
- Co-morbidity software from HCUP
- Diabetes Indicators and Data Sources Internet Tool.
- Doctor's Office Quality-Information Technology (DOQ-IT) measures
- Healthy People 2010
- See also: Healthy Vermonter tracking page
- Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures
- National Quality Measures Clearinghouse - searchable by disease/condition
- A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Moving Science into Coverage -
Disease-specific recommendations for clinical preventive services.
- Recommendations based on your own (or your target population's) personal health characteristics.