Quantitative data on beneficiaries were analysed to determine whether programme targets had been met.
Individual enrollees were the unit of analyses, and we used data on beneficiaries' usual PCP and covariates from the 2006 survey for the analyses.
Up until recent reforms, all the records in the CSW were maintained manually only on paper without a unified record keeping system leading to inaccurate data on beneficiaries.
In a large study using United States Medicaid claims data on beneficiaries in five states, only 35.8% of 22,928 age-eligible persons with HIV underwent colorectal cancer screening between 1999 and 2007 [ 18].
The LHID2010 contains all ambulatory and inpatient claims data on one million beneficiaries who were randomly sampled from the 2010 registry for beneficiaries of the NHIRD, and we used these data to examine the association between PPI use and pneumonia in patients with non-traumatic ICH with up to 2 years of follow-up (figure 1).
Cost-effectiveness analysis will combine quantitative and qualitative data on institutional, beneficiary, and community-level costs to estimate total intervention costs from a societal perspective.
As of August 2005, CMS has released 1991 through 2003 survey data on 76,880 beneficiaries including 222,545 person-years of survey data and 254,554 person-years of claims data.
Nationwide, individual-level data on the beneficiaries of partial or full sickness benefit in 2008 were obtained from national sickness insurance, pension and earnings registers.
The primary data source came from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), which contains registration information and original claims data on all beneficiaries of NHI in Taiwan since its establishment in 1995.
This study was based on data on Medicare beneficiaries in the United States and as such, may not be generalized to other populations or settings with different health care systems.
