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A
Accreditation
Accuracy

Acid Reducing/Peptic Disorder Drugs
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
Acute Condition
Addition
Admission
Advance Letter

Age
Age-Adjusted Death Rates
Age-Adjusted Rates
Age Adjustment
Alcohol Consumption
All-Listed Procedure
Ambulatory Care
Ambulatory Surgery

Anti-Cholesterol (Hyperlipidemia) Drugs
Antidespressants
Antihistamines
Any-Listed Diagnosis

Any-listed Procedure
Assisted Living Residences
Average Annual Rate of Change (Percent Change)
Average Length of Stay

B
Bed

Birth Cohort
Birth Cohort Infant Mortality Rate

Birth Rate
Birthweight

Block Group
Blood-Glucose Regulators
Body Mass Index (BMI)

C
Cause-of-Death
Cause-of-Death Ranking

Census Track
Certification
Chronic Condition

Cigarette Smoking
Civilian Population
Civilian Noninstitutionalized Population
Classification of Disease

Clinic
Cocaine-Related Emergency Department Episodes
Cohort
Cohort Fertility
Community Hospitals

Comorbidities
Comparability Ratio
Completed Cohort Fertility
Condition, Health

Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Crude Birth Rate
Crude Death Rate

D
Days of Care
Death Rate

Dental Caries
Dental Visit
Diagnosis, First-Listed
Direct Method of Age Adjustment
Disability

Disease Classification
Discharge, Hospital
Drug

Drug Class

Drug Mention

E
Education
Emergency Department
Emergency Department Visit
Employer Costs for Employee Compensation
Environmental Protection Agency Standards

Ethnicity/Race

Expenditures, National Health

F
Facility Occupancy Rate
Family Income
Fecund
Fecundity Status
Fee-for-Service Health Insurance
Federal Hospitals
Fertility
Fertility Rate
Fertility Rate (TRR), Total
Fetal Death Rate
First-Listed Diagnosis
First-Listed External Cause of Injury
For Profit Hospitals

Freestanding Psychiatric Outpatient Clinics

G
General Hospitals
General Hospitals Providing Separate Psychiatric Services

Geographic Region and Division
Gestation
Gravidity
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

Gross Reproduction Rate (GRR)
Group Health Maintenance Organization

H
Health Care Contact
Health Condition
Health Expenditures, National
Health Indicators, Leading

Health Insurance Coverage
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
Health Services and Supplies Expenditures

Health Status, Respondent-Assessed
Healthy People 2010
Healthy Weight (Body Mass Index)

Hispanic Origin
Home Health Care
Home Visit

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
Hospice Care
Hospital
Hospital Discharge
Hospital Occupancy Rate
Hospital Utilization

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

I
Illicit Drug Use
Impaired Fecundity

Incidence
Individual Practice Association (IPA)
Industry of Employment
Infant Death
Infant Mortality Rate
Infertility
Injury-Related Visit
Inpatient
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)
Insurance Coverage, Health
International Classification of Disease (ICD)
International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision,
        Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM)

Intrinsic Birth Rate
Intrinsic Death Rate
Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase (r)

L
Late Fetal Death Rate
Lead Letter/Advance Letter
Leading Causes of Death
Leading Health Indicators

License/Licensure
Life Expectancy
Life Tables
Limitation of Activity
Live Birth Order
Long-term Care Facility

Low Birthweight

M
Mammography
Managed Care
Marital Status

Maternal Death
Maternal Mortality Rate
Medicaid
Medical Vendor Payments
Medicare
Mental Health Organization
Mental Health Service Type

Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA)

Micropolitan Statistical Area
Mixed Model Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
Multiple Cause of Death
Multiservice Mental Health Organization

N
National Ambient Air Quality Standards
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

National Drug Classification (NDC) Class Category
National Drug Code (NDC) Directory Therapeutic Class
National Health Expenditures
Neonatal Mortality Rate
Net Reproduction Rate (NRR)
Nonpatient Revenues
Nonprofit Hospitals
Nonunderlying Cause of Death

Notifiable Disease
Nulliparous women (parity)
Nursing Care
Nursing Home
Nursing Home Expenditures

Nurse Supply Estimates

O
Obesity

Occupancy Rate (Facility)
Occupancy Rate (Hospital)

Office
Office Visit
Outpatient Department

Outpatient Surgery
Outpatient Visit
Oversample
Overweight

P
Pap Smear
Partial Care Organization

Parity
Particulate Matter
Patient
Percent Change (Average Annual Rate of Change)
Perinatal Mortality Rate
Perinatal Mortality Ratio
Personal Health Care Expenditures
Physician
Physician Specialty

Place of Residence
Pollutant
Point-of-Service Plan (POS)
Population

Postacute Care
Poverty Level
Postneonatal Mortality Rate
Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
Prenatal Care
Prevalence
Primary Admission Diagnosis
Private Expenditures
Procedure
Psychiatric Hospitals
Public Expenditures
Public Health Activities

R
Race
Rate
Registered Hospitals
Registered Nursing Education
Registration Area
Relative Standard Error
Relative Survival Rate
Reporting Area
Resident
Resident Population

Residential Treatment Centers
Respondent-Accessed Health Status

S
Serious Psychological Distress
Sex Ratio
Short-Stay Hospitals
Specialty Hospitals
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
State Health Agency

Subacute Care
Substance Abuse Treatment Clients
Substance Use
Suicidal Ideation
Surgically Sterile
Synthetic Cohort

T
Tobacco Use
Total Births Expected
Total Fertility Rate (TRR)
Total Population

Transitional Care

U
Underlying Cause of Death
Uninsured
Urbanization

Usual Source of Care

V
Very Low Birthweight

Y
Years of Potential Life Lost

 

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