Question

Healthcare data sets is an interesting topic. What are data sets? Why would a data set be developed? Provide one to two examples only not a list.

Answer 1

Healthcare data sets are the piece of information; regarding the patient that is collected and shared with the client by the healthcare providers for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment.

The purpose of the healthcare data set is to identify the data elements that should be collected for each patient and to provide uniform definitions for common terms.

Some example of the healthcare data sets include;

Minimum Data Set for long-term care (federally mandated standard assessment form used to collect demographic and clinical data on nursing home residents that must be completed for every resident at the time of admission and during reassessment periods; used to develop care plans and document placement at the appropriate care level)

Uniform Hospital Discharge Data Set (lists and defines a set of common, uniform data elements for every hospital inpatient; includes principal diagnosis, principal procedure, and other significant procedures)