Upcoming Events

Feb 8 1:00-2:00	Principal Investigator Seminar Series Implementing Decision Aids in Primary Care; A Quality Improvement Project Carmen Lewis, MD, MPH, Assist Prof of Medicine, Director, Decision Making Research-Decision Support Lab -- Sheps Center, DeFriese Conf Rm 150
Feb 19 1:00-2:15pm	Health Disparities Seminar Series Toward a new approach for studying and eliminating disparities: intersection of social context, life course, health care, and health inequities Dr. Vijaya Hogan , Department of Maternal and Child Health, UNC-Chapel Hill SPH -- Room 101 Rosenau Hall
Mar 8 1:00-2:00	Principal Investigator Seminar Series TBD -- Sheps Center, DeFriese Conf Rm 150
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Mar 19 1:00-2:15pm	Health Disparities Seminar Series Stroke-Related Disability: A Pilot Study of African American Caregivers Dr. Sharon Williams , Department of Allied Health Services, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine -- Room 101 Rosenau Hall
Apr 12 1:00-2:00	Principal Investigator Seminar Series Disparities in Care For Early Stage Lung Cancer: After a Decade of Inertia, What Can We Do? Sam Cykert, MD, Assoc Professor, Medicine, UNC-CH; Chief and Program Director, Internal Medicine Program, Moses Cone Mem Hosp -- Sheps Center, DeFriese Conf Rm 150
Apr 16 1:00-2:15pm	Health Disparities Seminar Series To be announced Christine Parks, Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group, NIEHS -- Room 101 Rosenau Hall
May 10 1:00-2:00	Principal Investigator Seminar Series Addressing a Hospital's Racial Disparities with the Tools of Quality Improvement Don Pathman, MD, MPH, Professor of Family Medicine, Program Director, Program on Health Professions and Primary Care -- Sheps Center, DeFriese Conf Rm 150
May 21 1:00-2:15pm	Health Disparities Seminar Series The Stroke Telemedicine Access Recovery (STAR) Project: Using Innovative Technology to Deliver Care to Underserved Areas Dr. Patricia Gregory, Dept of Physical Medicine and Rehab, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine -- Room 101 Rosenau Hall

What's New?

The 2008 NC Health Professions Data are now available. [Databook] [Data]
Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD and Program on Aging, Disability, and Long-term Care announce publication of a first-of-its-kind manual to improve practices and inform policies in assisted living communities through the use of a collaborative method of research – community-based participatory research (CBPR). Press release link pdf manual link
New Findings Brief: Updating Uninsured Estimates in an Economic Downturn [link]
The Center for Women's Health Research has moved to its new location in Southern Village. Contact information: CWHR, 104B Market Street, Campus Box #7521, Chapel Hill, NC 27516 Telephone: 919-843-7720. Please check their website at www.cwhr.unc.edu for details.
A Study of Associate Degree Nursing Program Success: Evidence form the 2002 Cohort. [Report] [Powerpoint]
The 2006-2007 Sheps Annual Report is now available.
Trends in Licensed Health Professions in North Carolina, 1979-2005: [pdf].
Physician Medical & Residency Training Fact Sheet, 2005 [pdf].
County Estimates of the Number of Uninsured in North Carolina. 2005 update [pdf].
Percent of North Carolinians Aged 0-64 Without Health Insurance for 2005, by House District. Map [pdf]
Percent of North Carolinians Aged 0-64 Without Health Insurance for 2005, by Senate District. Map [pdf]
Percent of North Carolinians Aged 0-64 Without Health Insurance Estimates for 2005. Map [pdf]
A new fact sheet entitled, "Trends in the Supply of Dentists in North Carolina, 1996-2005" is available now. [pdf]
The new Allied Health Job Vacancy Tracking Report ( August 2006) is available now. [pdf]
STEP UP NOW for Better Jobs and Better Care: The Evaluation of a Workforce Intervention for Direct Care Workers [pdf]

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Sheps Center Data Sources

CCQI - Carolina Cost and Quality Initiative

A collaborative partnership between UNC’s School of Public Health and the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research to build, maintain and oversee the use of data on health care services provided to North Carolina residents, and to promote the use of these data for research. Data from public and private payers populate the patient specific database. Periodic updates from the payers keep the research database current and relevant.

MarketScan^®Commercial Claims and Encounters Database

The MarketScan^®Commercial Claims and Encounters Database (MSCCAE) from Thomson Reuters (Healthcare) Inc. contains de-identified, person-specific health data including clinical utilization, expenditures, insurance enrollment/plan benefit, inpatient, outpatient, and outpatient prescription information. The data cover over twenty million individuals annually, and include private sector health data from approximately 100 payers, and can be linked to track detailed patient information across sites, types of providers, and over time.

North Carolina Health Professions Data System

Collects and disseminates timely and reliable data on selected licensed health professionals in North Carolina. The data includes contact, educational and practice information.

NC Discharge Data: Short Term Acute Care Hospital (Inpatient), Ambulatory Surgery, and Emergency Room

The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research is under contract with the Division of Health Services regulation to maintain, for use in research and state health planning, the NC hospital discharge data and NC ambulatory surgery data collected by Thompson Healthcare. Data from UB-92, and now UB-04, claims forms populate these databases. Yearly updates from Thompson keep the research database current.

North Carolina Rural Health Research Program Cartographic Archive

For rural parts of North Carolina and the United States, provides maps of demographics, health status indicators, health care providers and health related services.

RNDMU — Region IV Network for Data Management and Utilization

Focuses on women and infant indicators for planning and assessment.

Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research