Allegheny County Anxiety Medication

Description

These Census Tract-level datasets described here provide de-identified diagnosis data for customers of three managed care organizations in Allegheny County (Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC) that have filed a claim for anxiety medications in 2015 and 2016. The data also includes the number of enrolled members in the three participating managed care organizations in 2015 and 2016. Disclaimer: Users should be cautious of using administrative claims data as a measure of disease prevalence and interpreting trends over time, as data provided were collected for purposes other than surveillance. Limitations of these data include but are not limited to: misclassification, duplicate individuals, exclusion of individuals who did not seek care in past two years and those who are: uninsured, enrolled in plans not represented in the dataset, or were not enrolled in one of the represented plans for at least 90 days.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
8 anxiety_all_2016.csv https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/6ee6d30f-c27a-41b6-9f94-0c071ce266e4/resource/1d630832-b5d6-4cf2-b3f4-e9fffe6f1000/download/anxiety_all_2016.csv
21 This data appears in the Data Across Sectors for Health Data User Guide https://wiki.tessercat.net/wiki/DASH_Data_Guide#Anxiety_and_Depression_Medication
53 The following National Drug Codes (NDC) for Anxiety were used by the managed care organizations for classifying Anxiety medications during this project. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/6ee6d30f-c27a-41b6-9f94-0c071ce266e4/resource/07dd9352-965d-4e77-995c-298420c158b3/download/ndc-codes.xlsx
8 2.anxiety2015.csv https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/6ee6d30f-c27a-41b6-9f94-0c071ce266e4/resource/d0676374-52ca-452c-9612-87b278997cfc/download/2.anxiety2015.csv

Tags

  • dash
  • anxiety-medication
  • depression
  • social-determinants-of-health
  • achd
  • health
  • anxiety
  • achd-dash

Topics

  • Local Government

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