This continuing series of reports, published by the DEcIDE (Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness) Network provides new information and insights into the use of health care services and interventions for the treatment, management, and diagnosis of specific diseases, it also highlights the variations and potential disparities in health care services across patient subpopulations. The reports provide brief descriptive statistics, background information, and analytic tables on a variety of specific, focused topics. Certain reports will present new statistics on topics such as disease incidence, prevalence, and burden of illness and outcomes such as hospital readmission, morbidity, and mortality. The series reports will generally summarize the basic demographic and geographic breakdowns of the data, with additional details provided in statistical tables that can be downloaded from this website.
Overall, the report series will assist stakeholders in describing important trends in health care and in identifying research questions for new studies on comparative effectiveness and patient-centered outcomes. Researchers from the DEcIDE Network will initially use existing health care databases, particularly those available from the Federal Medicare program, to produce the reports.
Published Reports
Data Points #1: Prevalence of diabetes, diabetic foot ulcer, and lower extremity amputation among Medicare beneficiaries, 2006-2008 (PDF) 2.6 MB.
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Data Points #2: Incidence of diabetic foot ulcer and lower extremity amputation among Medicare beneficiaries, 2006-2008 (PDF) 2.7 MB.
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Data Points #3: Economic burden of diabetic foot ulcers and amputations (PDF) 621 kB.
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Data Points #5: Prevalence and Medicare reimbursement by recurrent international classification of diseases categories, 2006-2009 (PDF) 581 kB.
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Data Points #6: Utilization and cost of anticancer biologic products among Medicare beneficiaries, 2006-2009 (PDF) 1.46 MB.
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Date Points #7: Utilization of anticancer biologic products among Medicare beneficiaries, by diagnostic cancer subchapter, 2006-2009 (PDF) 1.74 MB.
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Date Points #8: Utilization of antihypertensive drug classes among Medicare beneficiaries with hypertension, 2007 to 2009 (PDF) 1.3 MB.
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Data Points #9: Utilization of antidiabetic drugs among Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes, 2006-2009 (PDF) 2.5 MB
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Data Points #10: Proton beam radiotherapy in the U.S. Medicare population: growth in use between 2006 and 2009 (PDF) 2.3 MB
Data Points #11: Newly Medicare-eligible disabled: comparison of duals and nonduals (PDF) 1.3 MB
Data Points #12: Health care use in the first six months of Medicare eligibility for elders: Impact of State support (PDF) 1.4 MB
Data Points #15: Prognostic factor testing among older women with ductal carcinoma in situ and early invasive breast cancer (PDF) 797 kB.
Data Points #17: Trends in bariatric surgery in Medicare beneficiaries (PDF) 760 kB.
Data Points #19: Medication Use in Medicare (PDF) 797 kB.
Data Points #20: Echocardiography Trends (PDF) 3.1 MB.