Test 1 Chapter 3

Question 1

1. In chapter 3, what refers to the collection of data by researchers themselves?

Answer 1

Primary data source

Question 2

2. In chapter 3, what refers to the use of data collected by others?

Answer 2

Secondary data source

Question 3

3. In chapter 3, what is data collected at one point in time?

Answer 3

Cross-sectional data

Question 4

4. In chapter 3, what is data that follows the same unit of observation over time?

Answer 4

Time-series data

Question 5

5. In chapter 3, what data is a combination of cross-sectional and time series data, surveying the same groups over time?

Answer 5

Panel data

Question 6

6. In chapter 3, what agency undertakes the majority of health statistical activities?

Answer 6

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

Question 7

7. In chapter 3, what is prepared by the Bureaus of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, Public Health Service, HHS?

Answer 7

Area Resource File

Question 8

8. In chapter 3, what is maintained by the Centers for Diseases Control (CDC), a federal agency within the Public Health Service responsible for leadership in the prevention and control of diseases?

Answer 8

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)

Question 9

9. In chapter 3, what is conducted by the Office of Strategic Planning of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)?

Answer 9

Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS)

Question 10

10. In chapter 3, what is another population-based administration data set collected through CMS, which provides Medicare utilization and enrollment data that are linked to NCHS survey data?

Answer 10

Medicare Enrollment and Claims Data (MECD)

Question 11

11. In chapter 3, what was introduced in 1998 as a replacement for earlier mental health inventories conducted by the Center for Mental Health Services, which is part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, HHS where surveys are mailed every other year to mental health organizations in the U.S., including psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric services in nonfederal general hospitals, VA psychiatric services, residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed children, freestanding outpatient psychiatric clinics, and partial-care organizations?

Answer 11

Survey of Mental Health Organizations (SMHO)

Question 12

12. In chapter 3, what is conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Diseases Control, Public Health Service, HHS that obtains data through a national sample of office-based physicians and a systematic random sample of physician office visits during a seven-day period?

Answer 12

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)

Question 13

13. In chapter 3, what is conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Services, HHS that publishes each week a probability sample of households interviewed for information on all living members of the sampled household over the previous two weeks?

Answer 13

National Health Interview Survey

Question 14

14. In chapter 3, what is conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, HHS, and since 1959 has been conducted in three cycles?

Answer 14

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

Question 15

15. In chapter 3, what is conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, Public health Service, HHS where data are abstracted from a multistage cluster random sample of medical records of inpatients discharged from nonfederal short-stay hospitals (approximately 200,000 records per year)?

Answer 15

National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS)

Question 16

16. In chapter 3, what is conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and is the third iteration of a series of surveys conducted by AHRQ on the financing and use of medical services in the United States?

Answer 16

Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS)

Question 17

17. In chapter 3, what is another useful source of longitudinal data on the elderly population that is maintained by the University of Michigan and supported by the National Institute on Aging?

Answer 17

Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

Question 18

18. In chapter 3, what is developed by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, HHS that obtains data from birth and death certificates provided by the states?

Answer 18

National Vital Statistics System (NVSS)

Question 19

19. In chapter 3, what describes what specific study a researcher intends to accomplish and how, with the primary purpose to obtain the funding necessary to carry out the study?

Answer 19

Research proposal