This is all a way of saying that the console of the next seven or so years looks less and less like a glossy, stealth-bomber-shaped box sitting in front of your television — and more like thousands of ugly boxes sitting in a highly air-conditioned warehouse hundreds or thousands of miles away from your living room.
We assessed agreement between the Chronic Condition Warehouse diabetes algorithm for Medicare claims and self-report measures of diabetes.
The Chronic Condition Warehouse contains flags created using numerous established algorithms applied biannually since 1999 to define 21 chronic diseases [ 16, 23- 27].
The Chronic Condition Warehouse (CCW) algorithm yielded a higher rate of diabetes than respondent self-reports (27.3 vs. 21.2, p < 0.05).
Using data from 1999 to 2006 from the Medicare Chronic Conditions Warehouse, we identified persons age >/= 65 in the national 5% sample.
The Chronic Condition Warehouse 2005 end-of-year indicators were used to denote baseline comorbidities, including pre-existing chronic kidney disease, CVD, ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction (MI), congestive heart failure (CHF) or stroke/transient ischemic attack (TIA) [ 23- 26].
In this retrospective cohort study, beneficiaries aged 65 and older with diabetes who were continuously enrolled and alive from 2004 to 2006 were identified from a 5% random US Medicare sample, the Medicare Chronic Condition Warehouse dataset [ 16][ 17].
Three measures of diabetes status were utilized: survey self-reports ("Has a doctor ever told you that you have diabetes or high blood sugar?"), indication of diabetes based on the Chronic Condition Warehouse (CCW) algorithm, and a Hemoglobin A1c score of 6.5 or higher [ 5].
In the worst case, he said, "They'd default and we'd have some really beautiful air-conditioned warehouse buildings".
An employee led me through an air-conditioned warehouse full of fifty-gallon barrels of oils with labels identifying their origins: frankincense from Oman; lavender from Bulgaria.
