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Appendixes

The following appendixes can be obtained by contacting Dr. Ernest Moy, Medical Officer, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. E-mail: ernest.moy@ahrq.hhs.gov.

1. Additional Tabulations and Statistical Testing During the Validation of the Socioeconomic Status Index
2. Cancer Screening Tables
3. Diabetes Prevention Tables
4. Ambulatory Care Sensitive Condition Tables
5. Common Hospital Diagnosis Tables
6. Documentation of the Medicare Claims Data Presented in the Tables
7. Codebook for the Analytic File
8. Tables of Denominators for Weighted and Unweighted National and MSA Tabulations (Bound Separately)
9. SUDAAN® Output for the Multivariate Analysis

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AHRQ Publication Number 08-0029-EF
Current as of January 2008

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Internet Citation:

Creation of New Race-Ethnicity Codes and Socioeconomic Status (SES) Indicators for Medicare Beneficiaries. Final Report. AHRQ Publication No. 08-0029-EF, January 2008, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/medicareindicators/

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