Reporting of Hospitalization in the Health Interview Survey

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  There were three major objectives underlying this research. 1. To obtain estimates of the amount of underreporting of hospital episodes in household interviews in order to provide a rough approximation to underreporting in the Unsensational Health Survey. 2. To analyze the types of hospitalizations which were underreported and to investigate some of the factors relating to underreporting. 3. To study some response errors and to explore factors associated with these errors for hospitalizations which were reported.
• Subjects:
  Epidemiology Health Surveys Public Health Vital Statistics
• Keywords:
  Health Interview Survey
• Source:
  National Health Interview Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Vital and Health Statistics Series
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  79 pdf pages
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  6
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:858c02d7568b10188565f6e14447074c2f58b9e5e6574440928bba7a5c8fcbd299987cf172e961dcf26fa2ec8cdc3d807d9345336eeec242ed34dbbfc20e0a2c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/255095/cdc_255095_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 5.08 MB ]