Hypertension

Description

These datasets provide de-identified insurance data for hypertension hyperlipidemia. The data is provided by three managed care organizations in Allegheny County (Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC) and represents their insured population for the 2015 and 2016 calendar years. 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
21 This data appears in the Data Across Sectors for Health Data User Guide https://wiki.tessercat.net/wiki/DASH_Data_Guide#Cardiovascular_Disease_Co-Morbidity
8 hypertension_all_2016.csv https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/3f0b8a8c-2239-4dac-8eb0-74ac7d859022/resource/405988a0-66f4-49e2-887f-752d92d40733/download/hypertension_all_2016.csv
8 5.hypertension2015.csv https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/3f0b8a8c-2239-4dac-8eb0-74ac7d859022/resource/f389965d-207d-4dbe-a627-7951ca636f30/download/5.hypertension2015.csv
53 The following National Drug Codes (NDC) for hypertension medications were used by the managed care organizations for classifying an hypertension medication during this project. https://data.wprdc.org/dataset/3f0b8a8c-2239-4dac-8eb0-74ac7d859022/resource/ebc1ed27-971e-4d8d-9240-77b4071fc2e4/download/ndc-codes.xlsx

Tags

  • social-determinants-of-health
  • hypertension
  • cardiovascular-disease
  • achd-dash
  • blood-pressure

Topics

  • Local Government

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