These features include beneficiary registries, cash delivery mechanisms, and unified targeting approaches.
This study combines the following NHIRD datasets spanning from 1996 to 2004: registry for contracted medical facilities, registry for medical personnel, registry for contracted beds, registry for beneficiaries, registry for board-certified specialists, hospital discharge file, and registry for catastrophic illness patients.
To calculate the numbers of valid beneficiaries in the study period, the beneficiaries' registry files (ID2002_1.DAT to ID2002_8.DAT) were also obtained.
Subjects from the general population were selected from Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2005 LHID20055) created by National Health Research Institutes NHRII) by randomly sampling 1 000 000 beneficiaries from Registry for Beneficiaries data files for year 2005.
LHID 2000 is a data set released by the NHRI that contains all original claims data for 1 million randomly selected beneficiaries in the 2000 Registry of Beneficiaries.
The LHID2005 contains all the original claims of 1,000,000 beneficiaries, randomly sampled from the Registry for Beneficiaries (ID) of the NHI database in 2005.
Three subsets of the NHIRD, the Longitudinal Health Insurance Health Insurance Database 2000 (LHID 2000), 2005 (LHID 2005) and 2010 LHID 20100), which contains claims data of one-million beneficiaries randomly selected from the Registry of Beneficiaries of the NHIRD in 2000, 2005, and 2010, respectively.
This dataset contains information on all medical services, such as ambulatory care claims, inpatient claims and prescription drugs and registry beneficiaries [ 18- 20].
The Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000 LHID20000) contains all the original claims data of 800,000 beneficiaries, randomly sampled from the year 2000 Registry for Beneficiaries of the NHIRD [ 24].
The incidence of urinary tract cancer during the study period was also calculated in the non-TB general population from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2010 (LHID 2010), a subset of the NHIRD containing the original claims data of one million beneficiaries enrolled in 2010 randomly sampled from the registry for beneficiaries.
