Scope of the Survey, 1998 The sampling frame for the 1998 National Home and Hospice Care Survey (NHHCS) consisted of 16,500 agencies classified as agencies providing home health and hospice care. The universe of home health agencies and hospices was obtained from various national organizations and other sources. The sample consisted of 1,350 agencies selected from this universe. Only agencies providing home health or hospice care services to patients at the time of the survey were eligible to participate in the 1998 NHHCS. Of the 1,350 agencies in the sample, 1,158 (86 percent) were considered in-scope of the survey. Of the 192 out-of-scope agencies, 174 were not providing home health or hospice care services to patients at the time of the survey and 18 were duplicates of, or had merged with, other sampled agencies. Of the in-scope agencies, 1,088 (94 percent) agreed to participate.
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