title: Federal healthcare data collection is incomplete and inadequate--report.
abstract: A new report criticizes federal efforts to collect data on the use of healthcare services, calling them fragmented, duplicative and inadequate for policymakers' needs. The report says a proposed overhaul of the National Center for Health Statistics doesn't go far enough and offers recommendations to steer the project toward more effective results.
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authors: Gardner
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection / Q000592:standards; D006296:Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015969:National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, U.S., Health and Medicine Division; D009309:National Center for Health Statistics, U.S.; D014481:United States