Approved SPARCS Data Requests
New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH)
Bureau of Biometrics and Health Statistics
Approved SPARCS Data Requests from September 1, 2009 - March 31, 2011
This list of data requests is made available to inform researchers of the uses of SPARCS (Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System) and PRI (Patient Review Instrument) data.
Requests can be for either identifying data or non-identifying data.
Requests for identifying data require approval by the Data Protection Review Board (DPRB) and ratification by the Commissioner of Health. These projects are indicated by the initialism, "DPRB", following the request number.
Requests for non-identifying data require approval by the Director of the Data Access Unit within the Bureau of Biometrics and Health Statistics (BBHS). These projects are indicated by solely numeric request numbers.
If additional information is desired, please e-mail DPRB@health.state.ny.us for issues related to identifying data, or bio-info@health.state.ny.us for issues related to non-identifying data.
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| Approved / Ratified | Project Director | Organization | Request # | Project Title | Project Description | Data Years Requested |
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| 3/29/2011 | Drew Lerman | Bon Secours Charity Health System | 11032906 | Hospital Operations and Outcomes Analysis | This project will monitor reporting and ongoing tracking of key clinical and utilization measures. | 2010-2014 IP 2010-2014 OP |
| 3/29/2011 | Paul Staehle | University of Pennsylvania Health System, Department of Corporate Finance, Strategic Decision Support | 11032905 | Benchmarking and Quality Improvement | UPHS plans to use the inpatient data as part of ongoing strategic planning, benchmarking, and quality initiative studies. | 2008-2014 IP |
| 3/21/2011 | Matthew Cooper | Albany Medical Center, Department of Corporate Finance | 11031602 | Crimson Market Advantage for Albany Medical Center Hospital and Albany Medical Center-South Clinical Campus | Data will be utilized within the Crimson Market Advantage product for the purposes of physician market analyses explicitly for Albany Medical Center Hospital and Albany Medical Center-South Clinical Campus. | 2008-2010 IP 2008-2010 OP |
| 3/17/2011 | Thomas McCarthy | National Economic Research Associates, NERA Inc. | 11031604 | To Analyze Hospital Service Area by Patient Zip Code | The data for this project will be used to analyze hospital usage by patient zip code. | 2009 IP |
| 3/17/2011 | Justin Wood | Committee of Interns and Residents, SEIU | 11031603 | Access Cost and Quality of Care for New York Hospital Patients | This project will assess the cost and quality of care of outpatient and inpatient services provided by NY hospitals. | 2006-2010 IP 2008-2010 OP |
| 3/7/2011 | Mark Coughlin | Hammes Company | 11022212 | Planning and Market Analysis | The data will be used to determine patient utilization of hospitals. | 2008-2010 IP |
| 3/2/2011 | E. Kevin Conley | NYS Office of Mental Health | 11020908 | Emergency Room Utilization Among Patients With Psychiatric Disorders | The data will be used to report Emergency Room rates of patients with mental illness at hospital, county and regional levels, and across multiple years (longitudinal and/or trend analyses). | 2007-2014 OP |
| 3/2/2011 | William Milczarki | Hunter College, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning | 11020905 | Bicycle-Pedestrian Accidents in New York State | The purpose of this project is to analyze the frequency of bike-ped accidents in NYS. | 1982-2014 IP 1983-2014 OP |
| 2/17/2011 | Jean Ahn | Yale New Haven Health System, Planning Office | 11020907 | Outmigration from Connecticut, Volume and Share | The requested data will be used to track Connecticut patients going to New York hospitals. | 2009 IP 2009 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Hilary Parton | NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Epidemiology Services | 1004-07 (A) DPRB | Manhattan Lupus Surveillance Program (MLSP) | This is a surveillance study to determine the incidence and prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Manhattan.The results of this project will guide appropriate funding for research and treatment of this disease. | 2004-2013 IP 2004-2013 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Denise Paone | NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention Care and Treatment | 1101-16 DPRB | Drug User Estimation Study (DUES) | The purpose of this study is to produce an accurate estimation of problematic drug users in New York City. | 2009 IP |
| 2/11/2011 | Andrea Mathis | Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) | 1101-15 DPRB | Acute Hospital Readmissions | The primary purpose of this project is to understand and analyze acute hospital readmission patterns. | 2000-2010 IP 2007-2010 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Amresh Hanchate | Boston University, School of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine | 1101-14 DPRB | Center for Health Insurance Reform, Cardiovascular Outcomes, and Disparities: Project #1 The Effects of Massachusetts Health Reform on Cardiovascular Outcomes and Disparities | This National Institute of Health (NIH) grant sponsored study is examining the effect of the Massachusetts' health care reform to increase the number of insured. New York State data will be used as a control for comparison to Massachusetts' rates. | 2004-2014 IP 2004-2014 AS |
| 2/11/2011 | Bruce Friedman | University of Rochester, Department of Community and Preventative Medicine | 1101-13 DPRB | Effectiveness of Stroke Treatment at Designated Stroke Centers in New York State | The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness (mortality), cost and cost-effectiveness of stroke treatment at hospitals with and without Designated Stroke Centers in NYS. | 2005-2006 IP 2005-2006 ED |
| 2/11/2011 | William Allison | Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) | 1101-12 DPRB | HANYS New York State Clinical Database Update | Analysis of SPARCS data will produce hospital discharge profiles, quality, and re-admission analysis. The data will also be used for policy analysis and evaluation, strategic planning and utilization analysis, and special projects/new product development. | 1987-2014 IP 1987-2014 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Mark Neuman | University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics | 1101-11 DPRB | Comparative Effectiveness of Anesthesia Type for Hip Fracture Surgery | The researcher is evaluating the effect of anesthesia method on the outcomes of patients receiving surgery for hip fractures. | 2004-2014 IP |
| 2/11/2011 | Giulia Earle-Richardson | Bassett Healthcare, New York Center for Agricultural Medicine and Health | 1101-10 DPRB | Statewide Surveillance of New York State Farm Injuries | The primary purpose of this research is to accurately track fatal and non-fatal agricultural injuries in New York State. This will aid in the development of injury prevention programs, education and outreach for the agricultural community. | 2007-2014 IP 2007-2014 ED |
| 2/11/2011 | Samuel Kleiner | Cornell University | 1101-09 DPRB | Does Health Care Spending Improve Patient Outcomes? Evidence from Within Neighborhood Hospital Usage | The researcher will examine whether costs of care for patients living in similar neighborhoods (i.e. Census blocks or streets) for whom a systematic difference exists that influences the hospital at which they are treated. | 1982-2010 IP 1983-2010 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Samuel Kleiner | Cornell University | 1101-08 DPRB | The Effect of Insurance Expansions on Hospital Use: Evidence from Medicaid, CHIP, and PPACA | The proposed study will examine the question if the expansion of public insurance leads to changes in the rates of hospitalizations for individuals eligible for these public programs. | 1982-2013 IP 1983-2013 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Patricia Shi | Mount Sinai Hospital, Division of Hematology-Oncology | 1101-07 DPRB | Association of Morbidity, Mortality and Length of Stay of Hospital Admissions in Sickle Cell Patients with Community Hospital Characteristics | The purpose of this study is to determine whether morbidity, mortality and length of stay during hospitalizations in sickle cell patients is influenced by community hospital characteristics such as an academic versus non-academic setting or hospital volume of sickle cell admissions. | 2005-2014 IP 2005-2014 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Igor Zurbenko | SUNY School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics | 1101-06 DPRB | Multivariate Time Series Analysis Methods with an Application on Meteorological Condition and Air Pollution Effects on Human Health | The researcher is examining the synoptic effect of air pollutants and weather conditions on hospital conditions in New York State due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. | 1982-2014 IP |
| 2/11/2011 | Ying Wang | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology | 1101-05 DPRB | Developing a Statewide, Population-Based Surveillance System for Hemoglobinopathies in New York State | The objective of this project is to establish a statewide, population-based surveillance system for hemoglobinopathies in NYS through collaboration among the Newborn Screening Program, Hemoglobin Specialty Treatment Centers, Medicaid Program, the Congenital Malformations Registry and other existing administrative database systems to integrate data collection of both short-term and long-term follow-up information for people in NYS with hemoglobinopathies. | 2004-2014 IP 2004-2014 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Nina Bickell | Mount Sinai Medical Center | 1101-03 DPRB | Comparative Effectiveness Research to Eliminate Disparities Initiative (CEREDI) | The requested data will be used to assist investigators in identifying and monitoring racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in health care. | 2005-2013 IP 2005-2013 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles | Mount Sinai Medical Center | 1101-02 DPRB | Targeting Primary Immunodeficiency Among Minorities: 2005 - 2009 | The data will be used to derive the number of subjects considered by physicians in NYS to have immune defects. | 2000-2014 IP 2000-2014 OP |
| 2/11/2011 | Barbara Dennison | NYS Department of Health, Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention, Policy and Research Translation Unit | 1101-01 DPRB | Using Clinically Enhanced-Claims Data to Guide the Selection of Coronary Procedures | The goal of this research program is to examine the comparative effectiveness of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures and percutaneous coronary artery interventions (PCI). | 2008-2013 IP 2008-2013 OP |
| 2/4/2011 | Tamie Critelli | O'Conco Healthcare Consultants | 11012402 | New York Market and Cost 2009 | The purpose of this project is to create cost-based benchmarks using the company's standard cost stepdown methodology. | 2009-2012 IP |
| 2/4/2011 | Dian Kahn | Vermont Department of Health, Department of Banking, Insurance, Securities and Healthcare Administration (BISHCA) | 10111806 | Vermont Uniform Hospital Discharge Dataset | Under 18 VSA 9405 and 9410, BISHCA is responsible for developing data resources to analyze health care utilization for services provided to Vermont residents within and outside of the state of Vermont. In order to provide for its analytical responsibility, the BISHCA needs access to selected hospitals data from NYSDOH. | 2004-2013 IP 2004-2013 OP |
| 1/10/2011 | Elizabeth McCullough | 3M Health Information Systems, Inc. | 10122907 | Analysis of Clinical Risk Groupers (CRGs) on Ambulatory Care Complications | The data will be used to determine how often ambulatory care complications occur. | 2008-2009 AS |
| 12/16/2010 | Ismail Sirtalan | Greater New York Hospital Association | 10121506 | Hospital Cost Savings Through the Alignment of Provider Incentives | The goal of this project is to reduce the cost of delivering patient care in hospitals. | 2007-2009 IP |
| 12/16/2010 | Chris Gorman | McKinsey and Company | 10121505 | Planning and Marketing Analyses | This project will analyze the data to determine the utilization of hospital services. | 2009-2011 IP |
| 12/10/2010 | Lisa Cover | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | 10120704 | Planning and Marketing Analyses | This project will help to determine patient utilization of hospitals. | 2008-2009 IP |
| 12/10/2010 | Matthew Eapen | New York Presbyterian Hospital | 10120703 | Comprehensive Online Quality Performance Improvement Technology (COQPIT) | This project will use the data to identify performance improvement opportunities for system hospitals. | 2009-2011 IP |
| 12/02/2010 | Nancy Erickson | New Solutions, Inc. | 10120101 | Uniform Billing Data for Clinical Outcomes Research | The SPARCS data will be used to create cost reports. | 2009 IP |
| 11/10/2010 | John O'Brien | Total Benchmarking Solutions, LLC | 10110904 | Hospital and Health System Inpatient Data Benchmarking | This project will use the SPARCS data along with other states' hospital discharge data to help health care providers increase the quality of care they provide to their patients by effectively benchmarking their quality, safety, satisfaction, cost and utilization to their peers. | 2006-2013 IP |
| 11/4/2010 | Jeff Schaller | Health Grades, Inc. | 10110303 | Quality Ratings and Analysis | This project will use the data to measure the quality outcomes for inpatient acute care. | 2009 IP |
| 11/3/2010 | Rudy Lewis | NYS Department of Health, Office of Public Health, Division of Family Health, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health | 1010-13 DPRB | Support of the Division of Family Health's Initiatives For Assessing Need For and Assuring Access to Quality Health Services for Women, Children and Newborns | The SPARCS data will be used to monitor access to hospital-based services in an effort to assess need, target services and ensure delivery of quality care. | 1992-2013 IP 1992-2013 OP |
| 11/3/2010 | Charlotte Druschel | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental & Occupational Epidemiology | 1010-12 (S) DPRB | Application For Programmatic Access for the Congenital Malformations Registry to SPARCS Data | The Congenital Malformations Registry (CMR) is a registry of children with congenital malformations reported by hospitals and physicians. SPARCS data is used for verification of reporting and for studies of care patterns of children with congenital malformations. | 1982-2013 IP 1983-2013 OP |
| 11/03/2010 | Matthew Reilly | NYS Department of Education | 1010-10 DPRB | Generating School District-Specific Pediatric Quality Indicator (PQI) Rates to Identify Sites for Expanding Access to Health Care Services Among NYS School Districts | The goal of this project is to enable the State Education Department to identify those school districts that have barriers to access to care. These districts in turn could be sites for specific interventions for diseases which have been found to be associated with poor academic achievement. | 2001-2013 IP |
| 11/03/2010 | Wanda Lizak Welles | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health | 1010-09 DPRB | National Toxic Substance Incidents Program (NTSIP) | The primary purpose of this study is to conduct surveillance on hazardous substance spills/releases, to characterize those events and their public health consequences and to develop reduction strategies that are aimed at the number of incidents and the associated morbidity and mortality. | 2010-2013 IP 2010-2013 ED |
| 11/03/2010 | Jennifer Frontera | Mount Sinai Hospital, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery | 1010-08 DPRB | Association of Transfer Time and Outcome in Intracranial Hemorrhage Patients: A Statewide Study | The goal of this project is to determine statewide trends in length of stay, discharge disposition and cost of intracranial hemorrhage over time among patients transferred from one institution to another. | 1990-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 11/03/2010 | Thomas Mahoney | Finger Lakes Health Systems Agency | 1010-06 DPRB | 2020 Performance Commission (2020 PC) Pediatric Quality Indicators/Emergency Department (PQI/ED) Initiatives | The primary goals of the 2020 Performance Commission are to improve access to care, avoid unnecessary hospital and Emergency Department use and eliminate health disparities in the Finger Lakes Region. This project will develop interventions to reduce or redirect the demand for avoidable and inappropriate use of hospitals resources to more appropriate lower cost sites of care. | 1997-2013 IP 1997-2013 OP |
| 11/03/2010 | Douglas Almond | Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, Department of Economics | 1010-05 DPRB | Emergency Room Diversion Status and New Patient Admissions | The purpose of this project is to understand the effect of emergency room diversion status on inpatient admissions. | 1995-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 11/03/2010 | Syni-An Hwang | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental & Occupational Epidemiology | 1010-04 DPRB | An Alternative Indicator for Understanding Carbon Monoxide (CO) Poisoning: Development of Measures of CO Episodes | The purpose of this project is to categorize individual carbon monoxide (CO) hospitalizations from 2000 - 2006 by episode and assess this in relation to total CO hospitalizations. The goal of this project is to identify counties where the lack of awareness is greater. | 2000-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 11/03/2010 | Deborah Fox | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental & Occupational Epidemiology, Congenital Malformations Registry | 1010-03 DPRB | Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in New York State | The purpose of this project is to determine the percent of New York State pregnancies exposed to heavy amounts of alcohol during the pregnancy. | 1995-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 11/03/2010 | Lorna Thorpe | CUNY Hunter College, School of Public Health | 1010-02 DPRB | Health of NYC's Vulnerable Populations: Hospitalization Patterns for Public Housing Residents with Special Emphasis on the Elderly | With this project, the goal is to review patterns of hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations among New York City Housing Authority residents compared to both citywide and non- New York City Housing Authority neighborhoods, and to identify patterns of disease and injury burden by age, gender, and type of housing development. | 1997-2011 IP 1997-2011 OP |
| 11/03/2010 | Wendy McKelvey | NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Division of Environmental Health | 1010-01 DPRB | Environmental Public Health Surveillance | The data will be used to review and analyze environmental exposures and health outcomes in NYC. | 1996-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 11/03/2010 | Shao Lin | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental & Occupational Epidemiology | 1001-07 (A3) DPRB | Meteorological Conditions and Hospital Admissions in New York State | This study is designed to assess the potential impact of temperature and/or humidity on New York State hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, renal disease and heat/cold effects. | 1991-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 11/03/2010 | Amanda Kowalski | National Bureau of Economic Research (Yale University, Department of Economics) | 1001-06 (D)(A) DPRB | How do Individual Medical Expenditures Evolve Over Time? - Evidence from Working-Age Individuals in New York | This study will inform the optimal design of health insurance plans, taking reclassification risk into account. | 1982-2013 IP 1984-2013 OP |
| 11/03/2010 | Jennifer Norton | NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Epidemiology Services | 0804-02 (A) DPRB | Surveillance of Injury, Episodic Illness, and Care of Chronic and Communicable Diseases in New York City | Surveillance analyses are conducted to describe the burden of injury and illness, occurrence of relevant events, and costs of care by demographic characteristics, location, and time. | 1997-2011 IP 1997-2011 OP |
| 11/03/2010 | David Savitz | Brown University | 0801-02 (A) DPRB | The Epidemiology of Hospitalized Postpartum Depression | The purpose of this study is to examine the epidemiology of severe postpartum depression, characterized by the need for hospitalization. | 1995-2005 IP |
| 10/21/2010 | Jim Strunk | Press Ganey Associates, Clinical Information Technology | 10100702 | Public Data Benchmarking/Operational Insights | The data for the state of New York will, in combination with data from other states that collect and release health care data, be summarized to show statistical information on variations in health care patterns across hospitals. | 2005-2013 IP |
| 10/21/2010 | Robert Kanter | SUNY Upstate Medical University, Department of Pediatrics | 10100601 | Quality of Care at Pediatric and Other Hospitals | This project will examine whether hospitals meeting a set of criteria that identify them as "comprehensive pediatric hospitals" have lower inpatient mortality rates than other hospitals that do not meet these criteria. | 1996-2006 IP |
| 10/21/2010 | Kelly Koniewicz | Health Market Science, Inc. | 10100803 | Trend Analysis | This project will analyze trends in claims data to identify important changes within hospital discharges. | 2009-2011 IP 2009-2011 OP |
| 10/08/2010 | Richard Shin | Economists Inc. | 10100803 | Analysis of Patient Choice for Hospitals in the Albany, New York Area | The data will be used to conduct an econometric choice model for hospitals to understand how patients attribute value to different hospitals in their choice set. | 2009 IP |
| 10/01/2010 | Sarah Gerecke | New York University, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy | 10092005 | State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods | Data will be used to help create the State of New York City's Housing and Neighborhoods annual report. The report will include the rate of asthma hospitalizations per 1,000 people in each geographic level. | 2009 IP |
| 9/29/2010 | William Levine | New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University, Department of Orthopedic Surgery | 10091704 | Incidents of Distal Clavicle Excision: An Analysis of Cases Performed in New York State and Review of Cases Submitted to the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery | Requested data will be used to determine the incidence of distal clavicle excision procedures. | 2007-2009 OP |
| 9/24/2010 | Tim Feldman | Rochester General Hospital | 10090303 | Crimson Market Advantage for Rochester General | The data will be utilized within the Crimson Market Advantage product for the purposes of physician market analysis explicitly for Rochester General. | 2008-2013 IP OP |
| 9/10/2010 | David Savitz | Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Preventative Medicine | 10090302 | Ethnicity and Pregnancy Outcomes in New York City | The data will be used for predictive purposes and advance understanding on how to target groups in need of intervention. | 1995-2003 IP |
| 9/03/2010 | Gerald Silberstein | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lally School of Management | 10082614 | Relationships of Acute Care Demographic and Clinical Data to Financial Data and Management Implications | The SPARCS data will be used For statistical analysis of static, inferential time series and non-parametric tests of financial demographic and clinical relationships. | 2005-2009 IP |
| 9/03/2010 | James Doyle | SDI HEALTH (formerly Verizpan, LLC) | 10082412 | Hospital Diagnoses and Procedures Project | Data will be used in a statistical model to estimate the volume of diagnoses and procedures at the national and facility level. | 2005-2013 IP 2005-2013 OP |
| 8/30/2010 | Robert Lin | NY Downtown Hospital, Department of Medicine, NY Medical College | 10081108 | Trends and Associated Clinical Demographic Features in Pediatric Hypersensitivity | The incidence of Kawaski's disease and other hypersensitivity disorders will be assessed by searching diagnostic codes in each year's database. | 1990-2009 IP 2009-2011 OP |
| 8/30/2010 | Jo Surpin | Applied Medical Software, Inc. | 10080303 | Performance Based Incentives: Best Practice Norms | The data will be used as part of the Applied Medical Software Performance Based Incentive System to assign an All-Patient Refined Diagnosis Related Group and cost, utilizing Medicare cost to charge ratios. | 2008-2009 IP |
| 8/30/2010 | Damion Nero | Federation of Jewish Philanthropists (FOJP), Risk Management Department | 10082615 | Economic Impact of Hospital Acquired Conditions , Throughput Analysis Using Outpatient Data | The project will perform a multivariate analysis of data using regression techniques to determine economic impact and length of stay associated with CMS hospital acquired conditions and study throughput measures for length of stay versus outcomes in outpatient settings. | 2009 IP 2005-2009 OP |
| 8/20/2010 | Palmer Bessey | New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Surgery, Burn Center | 10081710 | Studies of Hospital Care for Injury Treatment in New York State | The purpose of this project is to improve the understanding of how the Public Health burden regarding injuries has changed over time and how these changes are related to changes in methods of treatment, design and operation of healthcare systems, and public policy. | 1983-2013 IP |
| 8/20/2010 | Bernard Black | Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management | 10081709 | Effect of Public Hospital Reporting of Infection Rates on Infection Rates | The data will be used to investigate the impact of public reporting by hospitals of hospital acquired infection rates. | 2001-2008 IP |
| 8/16/2010 | Raymond Park | Columbia University, Department of Anesthesiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital | 10071603 | New York Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System for Investigating Methods of Anesthesia | The goal of this project is to characterize types of anesthesia used for pediatric procedures and to determine the validity of codes for anesthesia and evaluate SPARCS as a source for anesthesia related outcome research in children. | 2004-2009 IP |
| 8/03/2010 | Elizabeth Lewis-Michl | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology | 1007-08 DPRB | Health Outcomes Review Among Residents Near the National Lead Institute (NL) Site, Town of Colonie, Albany County, New York | The purpose of this project is to study the health effects of the discharges from the National Lead Industries site located in the Town of Colonie. | 1982-2013 IP |
| 8/03/2010 | David Strogatz | University of Albany, SUNY School of Public Health | 1007-07 DPRB | Trends in Asthma-Related Hospitalization in Children | The primary purpose of this study is to assess trends over time in hospitalization for asthma in children. The analysis of trends will look at the overall frequency of hospitalization for asthma in children, but will also look at trends by type of insurance to determine if disparities in hospitalization by insurance type are changing over time. | 2000-2010 IP |
| 8/03/2010 | Rudy Lewis | NYS Department of Health, Office of Public Health, Division of Family Health, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health | 1007-05 (S) DPRB | Support of the Division of Family Health's Initiatives for Assessing Need for and Assuring Access to Quality Health Services for Women | The SPARCS data will be used to monitor the access to hospital-based services in an effort to assess need, target services and ensure delivery of quality care. | 1992-2013 IP 1992-2013 OP |
| 8/03/2010 | Peter McGuire | Mount Sinai Medical Center | 1007-04 DPRB | Hospitalizations Due to Viral Infection Among Patients with Urea Cycle Disorders | The primary aim of this study is to investigate patterns of hospitalization due to viral illness in patients with urea cycle disorders. The study will focus on analyzing patterns including number of hospitalizations per year, duration of stay, repeat hospitalizations, survival and cost of same. | 1995-2013 IP 2005-2013 OP |
| 8/03/2010 | Anna Colello | NYS Department of Health, Division of Quality and Patient Safety, Cardiac Services Program | 1007-03 DPRB | Assessment of Whether All Stroke Patients Treated in New York State Hospitals are Included in the Get With the Guidelines Program and that Performance Measures are Completed | SPARCS data will be used to validate the hospitals' submitted data, plus learn more about the characteristics of patients with stroke and TIA diagnosis. | 2005-2013 IP 2005-2013 OP |
| 8/03/2010 | Warren Enker | Beth Israel Medical Center, Philips Ambulatory Care Center, Cancer Centers of New York | 1007-02 DPRB | Cancer-Specified Survival and Estimated Local Recurrence Rates Following the Treatment of Rectal Cancer by Standardized Surgery With or Without Radiation and Chemotherapy | The purpose of this project is to examine the outcomes of patients with rectal cancer over the period of 1985-2005 following standardized treatments involving surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. | 1985-2005 IP |
| 8/03/2010 | Andrew Ryan | Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College | 1007-01 DPRB | The Effect of the New York State Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Report Cards on Mortality | The proposed study will test the effect of the New York State Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) public reporting program on mortality by employing a novel design that accounts for the unobserved severity of patients receiving CABG in New York and other states. | 1986-2013 IP |
| 8/03/2010 | Robert Silverman | Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, The Feinstein Institute of Medical Research | 1004-05 (A) DPRB | Relationship of Air Pollution with Obstructive Lung Disease as a Function of Seasonality, Age, Gender, Race and Co-Morbidities | The primary goal is to investigate the relationship between obstructive lung disease morbidity (as indicated by the need for hospitalization) with various ambient air pollutants, while taking into consideration seasonality, age and co-morbidities. | 1995-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 8/03/2010 | Shao Lin | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology and Kent State University | 1001-07 (A2) DPRB | Meteorological Conditions and Hospital Admissions in New York State | This study is designed to assess the potential impact of temperature and/or humidity on New York State hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, renal disease, and heat/cold effects. | 1991-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 8/03/2010 | Samuel Kleiner | Cornell University | 0804-07 (A2) DPRB | Unionization, Concerted Activities and the Quality of Patient Care in New York State | The project will examine patient safety measures and whether labor strife at New York State hospitals affects quality of care performed during this strife. | 1982-2006 IP 1983-2006 OP |
| 8/03/2010 | Seth Freedman | University of Michigan, School of Public Health | 0804-05 (A) DPRB | Diffusion of Neonatal Intensive Care; Non-Price Competition, Resource Allocation and Infant Health Outcomes | The primary purpose of this study is to analyze the market forces behind the diffusion over the past decade of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU), particularly small community or intermediate units, and the potential health and economic costs and benefits of this diffusion. | 1992-2003 IP |
| 7/30/2010 | Lorna Mason | Brooklyn College, Center for the Study of Brooklyn | 10072605 | Neighborhood and Historical Disparities in Brooklyn Health and Hospital Measures | Data will be used to analyze disparities in Brooklyn health and hospital measures. | 2000,2005,2008 IP 2005,2008 ED |
| 7/30/2010 | Tavora Buchman | Nassau County Department of Health, Office of Research and Epidemiology, Public Health Preparedness/Maternal, Child, and Community Health | 10071604 | Injuries Among Nassau County Residents Aged 65 and Older | Data will be analyzed in order to identify trends and injury rates among Nassau County residents aged 65 years and older. | 2004-2009 IP 2004-2009 OP |
| 7/08/2010 | Shelley Hirshberg | P2 Collaborative of WNY | 10070101 | HEAL 9 Community Health Planning Infrastructure | The data will be used to generate summary reports and meta-analyses to compare Emergency Department utilization and readmission patterns across the counties and at the community level. | 2005-2010 IP 2005-2010 OP |
| 7/06/2010 | Mark Jeziorski | Sophical Solutions, LLC | 10063007 | Pricing Benchmarking | Data will be used to determine how an individual hospital's charges compare to other hospitals' charges. | 2010 IP 2010 OP |
| 6/21/2010 | Carol DeFrances | National Center for Health Statistics, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | 10062106 | National Hospital Discharge Survey | This project involves the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Hospital Discharge Survey. | 2009 IP |
| 6/21/2010 | Jeanne Mancision | Medisys Inc., Jamaica Hospital, Decision Support Department | 10060904 | Comparison of All-Patient Diagnosis-Related Group's and All-Patient Refined Diagnosis-Related Group's Case-Mixes For New York State Inpatients | For this project, the two types of Diagnosis-Related Groups will be compared for the same patients to see where the greatest differences exist regardless of severity. | 2007-2010 IP |
| 6/10/2010 | Kerry Bommarito | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Washington University, Division of Infectious Diseases | 10050117 | Clinical Research of Outcomes of Mastectomy Patients After Delayed vs. Immediate Reconstruction | The purpose of this project is to examine the outcomes of mastectomy patients after delayed and immediate reconstruction. | 2007 OP |
| 6/10/2010 | Christopher Chen | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Harvard College | 10050116 | Academic Health Services Research | The purpose of this research is to study trends in Massachusetts healthcare utilization before and after Massachusetts health reform efforts as measured by procedures used to evaluate if expanding coverage has increased demand for medical care and made accessing care more difficult. | 2004-2007 IP |
| 6/10/2010 | Kevin Kenny | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Deloitte Consulting LLP | 10050115 | Aggregate Utilization by Service Category and Market | Data will be used to create reports which will help in understanding market opportunities for health care companies following the enactment of national health reform legislation. | 2007 IP |
| 6/7/2010 | Mary Rojas | IPRO | 10060302 | Commonwealth Fund WhyNotTheBest.org State-Contributed Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Measures | The data will be used to calculate hospital-level Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Indicators and Diagnosis-Related Group-based hospital charges and lengths of stay subject to inclusion criteria review. | 2009-2011 IP 2009-2011 OP |
| 6/4/2010 | Tyler Tracewski | Integrated Health Care Consulting, LLC | 10060301 | Beth Israel Spine Institute, Strategy Development | In this project, the data will be used to identify the market/hospitals with Diagnosis-Related Groups of Interest. | 2008 IP |
| 6/3/2010 | Shannon Lorbiecki | Larson Allen, LLC | 10051408 | University of Connecticut Analysis of Connecticut Residents' Hospital Activity in New York State | The purpose of this project is to determine the number of residents from the Hartford region and State of Connecticut that are admitted to State of New York hospitals. | 2007-2008 IP |
| 5/25/2010 | Stephen Fillebrown | New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority | 10050703 | Assessment of Hospital Services in Hudson County | The purpose of this project is to determine the extent of out-migration of New Jersey residents to New York hospitals. | 2006-2010 IP |
| 5/25/2010 | Robert Knauf | NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, Central Office Finance | 10031506 | Comparison of All-Patient Diagnosis-Related Group and All-Patient Refined Diagnosis-Related Group Case-Mix for New York State Inpatients | For this project, the two types of Diagnosis-Related Groups will be compared for the same patients (or hospitals) to see where the greatest differences exist. | 2007-2010 IP |
| 5/24/2010 | Anthony Kouba | Health Care Futures | 10051412 | Strategic Plan for Southwestern Vermont Medical Center | The requested data will be used to perform a market study to access community need and patient access issues that may exist for patients near Southwestern Vermont Medical Center. New York State inpatient information will be required to determine what types of patients are leaving the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center area to receive care in New York. | 2007-2009 IP |
| 5/17/2010 | David Dranove | Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Department of Management and Strategy | 10050704 | Healthcare Report Cards and Patient Sorting | Data will be used to analyze the effect of report cards on patient sorting by examining all patients receiving coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). | 1982-1983 IP |
| 5/14/2010 | Jayanth Kumar | NYS Department of Health, Division of Family Health, Bureau of Dental Health | 10050805 | Trends in the Use of Dental Services in Emergency Departments, Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers in New York State | For this project, trends will be studied for the use of dental services in emergency departments, hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in New York State. | 2003-2008 IP 2003-2008 OP |
| 5/11/2010 | Rafael Ruiz | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Greater New York Hospital Association | 10040107 | Health Policy Analyses | Data will be used for health policy analyses pertinent to hospitals. | 2007 IP |
| 5/11/2010 | Mark Neuman | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., University of Pennsylvania, RWJCSP | 10040106 | Clinical Outcomes Among Older Adults Hospitalized With Hip Fracture | Data will be used to examine clinical outcomes among older adults hospitalized with hip fracture as a function of the type of anesthesia used for surgical repair of hip fracture. | 2007 IP |
| 5/11/2010 | James Hallick | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., CPM Marketing Group | 10040105 | Prediction of Health Care Utilization by Geographic Area | Data will be used to develop a model to predict future health care utilization nationwide. | 2006-2007 OP |
| 5/11/2010 | Robert Silverman | Long Island Jewish Medical Center, The Feinstein Institute of Medical Research, Department of Emergency Medicine | 1004-09 DPRB | Association of Weather and Air Pollution with Psychiatric Hospitalization: A Pilot Study | The primary objective is to determine the relationship between weather conditions (temperature, barometric pressure, rainfall, and humidity), levels of air pollution and frequency of psychiatric hospitalizations. | 1995-2013 IP |
| 5/11/2010 | Hilary Parton | NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Epidemiology Services | 1004-07 DPRB | Manhattan Lupus Surveillance Program (MLSP) | This is a surveillance study to determine the incidence and prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Manhattan. | 2004-2013 IP 2004-2013 OP |
| 5/11/2010 | Fabrice Smieliauskas | National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. | 1004-06 DPRB | Consulting Relationships Between Medical Device Manufacturers and Physicians, Learning and Surgical Performance | This is a study on whether higher orthopedic surgeon procedure volumes lead to better outcomes in joint replacement, and whether consulting relationships between physicians and medical device makers mediate these relationships. | 2002-2008 IP |
| 5/11/2010 | Robert Silverman | Long Island Jewish Medical Center, The Feinstein Institute of Medical Research, Department of Emergency Medicine | 1004-05 DPRB | Relationship of Air Pollution With Obstructive Lung Disease as a Function of Seasonality, Age, Gender, Race and Co-Morbidities | The primary goal is to investigate the relationship between obstructive lung disease morbidity (as indicated by the need for hospitalization) and various ambient air pollutants, while taking into consideration seasonality, age and co-morbidities. | 1995-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 5/11/2010 | David Foster | Thomson Reuters | 1004-04 DPRB | Design and Development of an All-Payer, 30-Day, Risk-Adjusted Readmissions Methodology for Three Clinical Groups: Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI), Heart Failure and Pneumonia | The goal of this project is to examine the design of the logistic regression model that can be used to produce predictive probabilities of 30-day hospital readmission rates for patients with AMI, heart failure and pneumonia. | 2008-2013 IP |
| 5/11/2010 | Tom Talbot | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology | 1004-03 DPRB | Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) | The purpose of the EPHT project is to develop and implement an ongoing tracking (surveillance) system for myocardial infarction and asthma in New York State. | 2008-2013 IP |
| 5/11/2010 | William Greene | SUNY Stony Brook University Medical Center | 1004-02 DPRB | Performance Improvement for Reduction of Patient Discharge Deterioration and Readmission | The primary purpose of this analysis is to provide Stony Brook University Medical Center the ability to appropriately plan for and continue to deliver high-quality care to its patients by focusing on hospital readmissions and the transition of care of its patients at discharge. | 2007-2013 IP 2007-2013 OP |
| 5/11/2010 | Jean Ahn | Yale New Haven Health System, Planning and Business Development | 1004-01 DPRB | Out-Migration From Connecticut Volume and Share | The requested data will be used to track Connecticut patients going to New York hospitals across various service lines and services and all patients receiving services in Westchester County. The objective is to understand the volume and types of services of Connecticut-origin patients traveling outside of Connecticut. | 2007-2009 IP 2007-2009 OP |
| 5/11/2010 | Shao Lin | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology | 1001-07 (A) DPRB | Meteorological Conditions and Hospital Admissions in New York State | This study is designed to assess the potential impact of temperature and/or humidity on NYS hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, renal diseases and heat/cold effects. | 1991-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 5/11/2010 | Amanda Kowalski | National Bureau of Economic Research | 1001-06 (D) DPRB | How Do Individual Medical Expenditures Evolve Over Time? Evidence from Working-Age Individuals in New York | Understanding the evolution of medical expenditures over time is crucial for reforms of health insurance policies, which generally cover individuals for only one year at a time. The study will help the researcher to better understand the financial difficulties imposed by acute and chronic diseases, which could ultimately help the government to target financial assistance to vulnerable populations. | 1982-2013 IP 1983-2013 OP |
| 4/22/2010 | Rebecca Wolff | Meridian Health (Jersey Shore UMC, Ocean MC, and Riverview MC) | 10042002 | Planning and Marketing | Data will be used to analyze patient utilization of hospitals. | 2006-2011 IP |
| 4/20/2010 | Rakesh Shrestha | St. Barnabas Health Care System | 10022605 | Analysis of NJ Patients' Out-Migration to NY | The analysis will be by NY hospital of service, zip code, Diagnosis-Related Group, principal diagnosis/procedure code, etc. | 2008-2009 IP |
| 4/20/2010 | Carl Denney | Health InfoTechnics, LLC | 09102308 | Calculation of Utilization Rates to Determine Hospital Marketing, Strategic and Operations Planning | The data will be used to calculate utilization rates and to produce aggregate market share reports that hospitals use in marketing and strategic and operations planning. | 2008-2009 IP 2008-2009 OP |
| 4/15/2010 | Susan Wymer | IPRO | 10041201 | CMS AIM Hospice Special Project | The goal of this project is to determine the rates of discharge to hospice or to home; and for the rates of discharge due to death for African-Americans and for Whites by age and diagnosis. | 2006-2008 IP |
| 4/8/2010 | Matthew McHugh | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. | 10030109 | Evaluating the Impact of Particular Healthcare Workforce Policy on Health Outcomes | The data will be used to evaluate the impact of particular health-care workforce policies on health outcomes. | 1995-2006 IP |
| 4/8/2010 | Daniel Barocas | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Vanderbilt University, Department of Urologic Surgery, MPH Program | 10030108 | Disparities in the Utilization of High-Volume Surgeons for Radical Prostatectomy Among Minority and Non-Minority Men With Prostate Cancer | This study will evaluate the disparities in the utilization of high-volume surgeons for radical prostatectomy among minority and non-minority men with prostate cancer. | 2005-2007 IP |
| 4/7/2010 | Hannah Jordan | NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, World Trade Center Health Registry | 1001-05 DPRB | Patterns of Hospitalization Among Persons Exposed to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center Disaster and its Aftermath Who Are Enrolled in the World Trade Center Health Registry | The World Trade Center Health Registry (WTCHR) uses periodic health surveys to follow a diverse cohort of 71,437 persons who were heavily exposed to the disaster of September 11, 2001. Linkage to SPARCS data will enable the researcher to gather additional information about patterns in healthcare for this sub-group of enrollees starting in 1996 through the 9/11 disaster, its immediate aftermath, and on an ongoing basis. Obtaining this data will allow for the assessment of a broader array of health conditions than has been possible previously through WTCHR surveys. | 1996-2013 IP 1996-2013 OP |
| 3/25/2010 | Alison Wishnick | Virtua Health | 10031904 | Planning and Marketing Analysis | Data will be used for information on patient utilization of hospitals. | 2007-2009 IP 2007-2009 OP |
| 3/23/2010 | Fabrice Smieliauskas | National Bureau of Economic Research | 10031903 | Financial Relationships, Physician Characteristics, Strategic Effects and the Adoption of Medical Devices | This will be a study of the effects of the adoption of medical devices in various medical specialties. Factors involved are: financial relationships between surgeons and medical device makers, surgeon adoption patterns, and physician characteristics such as education and years of experience. | 2002-2008 IP |
| 3/23/2010 | Christopher Garmon | Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics, Antitrust II | 10030802 | New York Hospital Merger Investigations | Data will be used in the Federal Trade Commission´s current investigations and potentially in future investigations of hospital mergers in New York and surrounding states. | 2007-2012 IP |
| 3/23/2010 | Henry Carretta | Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) | 10030101 | Evaluation of the Controlling Asthma in American Cities Project | The data will be used to measure the population-level impact of interventions to reduce asthma inpatient stays in the pediatric population. | 2007 IP |
| 3/23/2010 | Nick Shepard | Intellimed International Corporation | 10022607 | Hospital Strategic Plan and Provider Services Improvement Study and Analysis | Data will be used to provide the historical basis for evaluating, analyzing and making changes to improve patient healthcare service, set healthcare service quality standards and develop strategic decision support measures for New York State hospital systems. | 2003-2013 IP 2003-2013 OP |
| 3/23/2010 | Brian Rogers | Navigant Consulting, Inc. | 10022604 | New York State All Patient Refined-Diagnosis Related Group Proforma Analysis | Analysis will be a proforma comparison of the transition from All-Patient Diagnosis-Related Groups to All-Patient Refined Diagnosis-Related Groups. Data will be used to compare aggregated New York hospital values to statewide norms and norms of similar peer groups. | 2009 IP |
| 3/23/2010 | Ziv Kimmel | New York Compensation Insurance Rating Board | 10022206 | Pricing of Change to Workers Compensation Hospital Fee Schedule | This study will determine the amount payable under the prior fee schedule and the new fee schedule and evaluate the overall impact. | 2004-2009 IP |
| 3/23/2010 | Jean Ahn | Yale New Haven Health System, Planning Office | 09122105 | Outmigration from Connecticut Volume and Share | The requested data will be used to track Connecticut patients going to New York hospitals. | 2007-2008 IP 2007-2008 OP |
| 3/9/2010 | Kerry Bommarito | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Washington University, Division of Infectious Diseases | 10020109 | Utilization of Central Line Placement in Emergency Departments | The goal of this research is to create methodological tools to identify and study procedure patterns performed in the emergency department. | 2007 IP 2003-2006 OP |
| 3/9/2010 | Christian Wernz | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Virginia Tech, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering | 10020108 | Assessing Regional Differences in Healthcare Technology Use and Quality | Using statistical analytics, the data will be analyzed to identify relationships between technology use, quality of care and their association with the costs and regulations. | 2007 IP |
| 2/26/2010 | Diane McAlpine | Albany Medical Center, Department of Marketing and Planning | 10012903 | Multiple Studies Throughout Year | The data will be used for various studies as requested by management. | 2009-2011 IP |
| 2/12/2010 | Daniel Gilden | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., JEN Associates, Inc. | 10010111 | Comparative Management of Uterine Fibroid Disease | Data will be used for a study of the comparative management of uterine fibroid disease. | 2007 IP 2007 OP |
| 2/12/2010 | Peter Speyer | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | 10010110 | Quantify Health Sector Prices in Diverse Settings | Research will help in developing a predictive model to estimate the costs and determinants of costs for health interventions and delivery platforms. | 2003-2007 IP |
| 1/27/2010 | Shao Lin | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology | 1001-07 DPRB | Meteorological Conditions and Hospital Admissions in New York State | This study is designed to assess the potential impact of temperature and/or humidity on New York State hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, renal disease and heat/cold effects. | 1991-2013 IP 2005-2013 ED |
| 1/27/2010 | Lee Burns | NYS Department of Health, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services | 1001-04 DPRB | Evaluation of Quality Assurance Initiative for Trauma Care in New York State | The SPARCS files will be used to ensure completeness of reporting to the New York State Trauma Registry and thus will be a crucial step toward the goal of identifying the best practices of trauma care in New York State. The benefit of this study is improved trauma care derived from information contained in a population-based registry of severely injured patients. | 1988-2013 IP 1988-2013 OP |
| 1/27/2010 | Charlotte Druschel | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology | 1001-03 DPRB | National Birth Defects Prevention Study | The National Birth Defects Prevention Study is a long-term project intended to allow for the better understanding of the etiologies of birth defects for better prevention. It is an on-going collaborative study with six other states and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The project makes use of both interview and biologic information and is able to examine gene-environment interactions. | 2010-2013 IP |
| 1/27/2010 | Deborah Chollet | Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. | 1001-02 DPRB | Reducing Hospital Readmission in New York | The study goal is to measure the incidence and cost of readmissions to New York hospitals and identify potential strategies to reduce avoidable readmissions. The study will analyze risk-adjusted readmission rates using alternative measures of readmissions such as 7-, 30-, and 90-day thresholds and readmissions caused by infection or complications. | 2006-2008 IP |
| 1/27/2010 | Ferdinand Venditti, Jr. | Albany Medical Center Hospital | 1001-01 DPRB | Geographic Variation in the Access Healthcare for Impatient Services, its Correlates and Effects Over Time in New York State | This project will estimate and characterize the migration of patients seeking healthcare in New York State over time and across geographic regions and sociodemographic characteristics. All Major Diagnostic Categories and Diagnosis Related Groups will be assessed. In addition to diagnosis categories, "health care services" will also be assessed in light of complexity of care and types of procedures/treatments. | 1999, 2006, 2007 IP |
| 1/15/2010 | Chris Gorman | McKinsey and Company - Healthcare Practice | 10011301 | Planning and Marketing Analyses | Data will be used for information on utilization of hospital services. | 2006-2008 IP |
| 01/10/2010 | Huey-Ming Tzeng | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., University of Michigan, School of Nursing | 09120108 | Relationships Between Patients Who Experience Any In-Hospital Adverse Event or Medical Error and Hospital Characteristics | The data will be used to study the relationship between the characteristics of patients who experience any in-hospital adverse event or medical error and the hospital characteristics. | 2007 IP |
| 01/10/2010 | David Shahian | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Quality and Safety | 09120107 | Patient, Institutional &Geographical Factors Related to Quality and Efficiency of Care | The data will be used to compare care given at academic medical centers, other teaching and non-teaching hospitals. | 2006 IP |
| 12/28/2009 | Roberta Sprague | Onondaga County Department of Long Term Care | 09122304 | Feasibility Study for Van Duyn Home and Hospital, Onondaga County, New York | The study is intended to inform the planning team on positioning this property for current and future success in the Syracuse market given recent developments in terms of the Berger Commissions Report, as well as consumer trends and the competitive environment. Knowledge Systems & Research's (KS&R) approach will address several issues. Information will be presented in aggregate. A final report will be presented to Van Duyn Home and Hospital. | 2005-2012 IP 2005-2012 OP |
| 12/21/2009 | Natalia Egorova | Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Health Evidence and Policy | 0912803 | Hospital Volume and Outcomes for Major Surgical Procedures; Racial, Gender and Socio-Economic Disparities and Health Outcomes; Trends and Outcomes of Peripheral Vascular Procedures | Many surgical specialties have experienced tremendous change over the past decades because of the introduction of minimally invasive techniques; vascular surgery is no exception. The project will analyze changes in the utilization of vascular procedures over time, and it will analyze the trend in outcomes such as mortality, length of stay, and costs after traditional and minimally invasive surgeries. | 1990-2012 IP 1990-2012 OP |
| 12/18/2009 | Chip Richter | St. Jude Medical | 09121001 | Ad Hoc Market Research Projects | The purpose of this project is to quantify diagnosed diseases and treatment incidence within and across hospitals and geographics. All output will be presented in summary form, e.g. number of cases of heart failure patients who received x, y, or z therapy at ABC Medical Center. | 2008 IP |
| 12/2/2009 | Yin Wan | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., University of Wisconsin Hospital | 09110116 | To Evaluate the Volume Outcome Relationship for Bariatric Surgeries, Providing Evidence to Support the Volume-Based Referral Policy | This study focuses on examining the relationship between volume and health outcomes, including in-hospital mortality, complication and readmission. Volume is a surrogate quality indicator that may be used to predict patients' outcomes. | 2005-2007 IP |
| 12/2/2009 | Frank Thomas | Social &Scientific Systems, Inc., Crimson Advisory Board Company | 09110115 | State-Specific Comparisons of Physician Outcomes | The SPARCS data will be used to perform state-specific comparisons of physician outcomes, including metrics like mortality rates, length of stay, and complications. | 2007 IP |
| 12/2/2009 | Robert Phillips | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., American Academy of Family Physicians | 09110114 | Analytical Report on Primary Care Workforce Shortages, Trends, and Policy Options | The data will be used to estimate levels of primary care providers, both physicians and non-physicians, that minimize ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations and emergency room visits. For this analysis the Primary Care Service Area (PCSA)-level counts of primary care providers developed under the Dartmouth Atlas Project will be used and compared to the rates of ambulatory care, sensitive hospitalizations, and emergency department visits in PCSAs. | 2007 IP |
| 12/2/2009 | Guohua Li | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Columbia University | 09110113 | Epidemiological Studies of Surgical Patients with Serious Co-Morbidities | The data will be used in a series of epidemiological studies of surgical patients with serious co-morbidities, such as diabetes and Parkinson's. | 2006-2007 IP |
| 12/2/2009 | Wesley Joines | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Lewin-VHI | 09110112 | Public Policy Analyses and Formulation for Cost Drivers in Health Care Across the State | A research team from the Lewin Group ("Lewin") will use the SPARCS data for analyses related to public policy formulation to support work with the New York State Health Foundation. Part of Lewin's project-specific focus is to better understand cost drivers in health care across the state to potentially bend the cost curve. | 2007 IP |
| 12/2/2009 | Nitin Jain | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital | 09110111 | State-Specific Incidence Rates of Traumatic Spinal Cord Injuries | The objective of this project is to devise state-specific incidence rates of traumatic spinal cord injuries using patient population in different states. Similar rates will be calculated for joint arthroplasty procedures. | 2006 IP |
| 11/25/2009 | Warren Brennan | Strategic Medical Alliances, Inc. (SMA) | 09111610 | Patient Care Analyst | Patient Care Analyst (PCA) is a secure online healthcare business intelligence tool that is used by administrative and clinical staff of New York State hospitals to conduct individual studies of SPARCS statewide all-payer data sets. The SPARCS data file will be matched with the New York State Department of Education healthcare provider's license file to confirm provider names (attending physician, operative physician). | 2009 AS 2009 IP 2009 OP |
| 11/25/2009 | David Dranove | Center for Health Industry Market Economics | 09111608 | Health Care Report Cards and Patient Sorting | This study will analyze the effect of report cards on patient sorting by examining all patients receiving coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in the requested data. The data will be matched to the American Hospital Association (AHA) files using hospital ID. Results will be presented in summary statistics and regression tables. | 1984-1987 IP |
| 11/25/2009 | Craig Storrow | Bassett Healthcare | 09080301 | Market Analysis and Database Assessment | Data will be summarized in aggregate along dimensions of financial class, location (hospital), service line (oncology, etc.) and large geographic designation (primary and secondary service area) for purposes of identifying relative place in market for Bassett and assessment of market trends/opportunities. | 2007-2008 AS 2007-2008 IP 2007-2008 OP |
| 11/19/2009 | Andrew Epstein | Yale University | 09103011 | Understanding Physician Practice Patterns and Referral Choices | Data will be used to conduct academic research on the determinants of physician practice patterns and referral choices and the associations with patient outcomes. | 1992-2012 IP |
| 11/12/2009 | Scott Thomas | NERA Inc. (National Economic Research Associates, Inc.) | 09111004 | To Analyze Hospital Service Area by Patient Zip Code. | This study will analyze hospital service area by patient zip code and match, if any, with other data files, specifying the type and source of these files. | 2007-2008 IP |
| 11/10/2009 | Jim Strunk | Data Advantage Corp. | 09111003 | State Data View Medical Benchmarking | The data for the State of New York will, in combination with data from other states that collect and release health care data, be summarized to show statistical information on variations in health care patterns across hospitals, states, etc. It is the intent of Data Advantage to also study and compare across time to enable hospitals to understand how their operations may have changed over time, and to help track the efficacy of programs that they may have put into place to help address the variations in practices that may be uncovered. | 2008 IP |
| 11/10/2009 | Sandra Hapenney | Baylor University, Institute of Church & State Studies | 09091703 | Appeal to Conscience Clauses in the Face of Divergent Practices among Catholic Hospitals | This dissertation seeks to determine the uniformity of practice in the application of official Catholic doctrine by evaluating patient level data to evaluate the occurrence within Catholic facilities across several states of specific procedures for direct sterilization that are explicit violations of official church teaching. The ICD-9-CM diagnostic and procedural codes for direct sterilization are identified and the frequency of their occurrence reported. Court cases for conscience protection are reviewed to demonstrate the legal issues at stake if significant divergence among hospitals exists. | 2006-2008 IP 2006-2008 AS |
| 10/30/2009 | Charles Tuggle, III | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., Yale University, Department of Surgery | 09100114 | To Examine Health Outcomes (Complications) and Operating Room Times for Parathyroid Surgery and Access to Ambulatory Surgery Centers for Gall Bladder Surgery | The data will be used in several health services research projects. Operating times will be investigated in the ambulatory setting for parathyroid surgery. In addition, the data will be used to examine cholecystectomy in the ambulatory setting, looking at patient demographics that are associated with the procedure in the inpatient versus the ambulatory setting. | 2004 IP 2004 OP |
| 10/30/2009 | Ula Wang | Social & Scientific Systems, Inc., James J. Peters VA Medical Center | 09100113 | A Compare/Contrast of Hospitalization and Emergency Department Utilization Rates with Medicaid Rates in Diverse States | Two health services research projects are planned. The first will compare hospitalization and emergency department utilization rates of states with historically below average, average, and above average Medicaid spending on its enrollees. An additional study will contrast hospitalization and emergency department utilization rates of these aggregate states with data from Veterans Administration hospitals. | 2001, 2003, 2005-2007 IP |
| 10/30/2009 | Pamela Roberto | Social &Scientific Systems, Inc., PhRMA Policy & Research | 09100112 | The Impact of Part D on Hospitalizations | This project will investigate whether expanded drug coverage provided by the Part D Program reduces hospitalizations. | 2007 IP |
| 10/29/2009 | Paul Staehle | The University of Pennsylvania Health System (UPHS), Department of Business Development, Strategic Services Division | 09091003 | Benchmarking and Quality Improvement | UPHS plans to use the inpatient data as part of ongoing strategic planning, benchmarking, and quality initiatives. | 2005-2009 IP |
| 10/28/2009 | Caroline Bhalla | New York University, Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy | 09102809 | State of New York Cities and Neighborhoods | Data is used to publish annual reports on New York State's housing and neighborhoods demographic statistics. | 2008 IP |
| 10/23/2009 | Denise Buonopane | The Buonopane Group | 09042409 | Charging Trends and Pricing Benchmarks | To benefit providers, the data will be utilized to analyze trends in charges and to create pricing benchmark reports. | 2007-2008 IP 2007-2008 OP |
| 10/22/2009 | David Gould | United Hospital Fund of New York City | 0910-11 DPRB | Avoidable Use of Hospital Emergency Department (ED) by Community in New York | The purpose is to identify communities with high rates of Emergency Department (ED) use that may be reduced with improved access to quality care. This study will provide information that can help identify interventions to reduce unnecessary ED use including: 1) communities with high ED use, 2) potential drivers of high ED use, 3) profiles of high-cost ED users, 4) the extent to which high ED use is related to chronic medical conditions, and 5) the extent to which ED use may be related to poor quality care. | 2005-2011 IP 2005-2011 OP |
| 10/22/2009 | Rebecca Scheer | Citizens Committee for Children of New York, Inc. | 0910-10 DPRB | Keeping Track of New York City's Children: 9th Edition | The purpose of this project is to find the number and prevalence rates of childhood diseases for New York State and New York City including its five boroughs and 59 community districts. Specific health and medical conditions affecting children include asthma, pneumonia, acute respiratory infections, psychosis, neurosis, dehydrations, middle ear infection, lead poisoning, tuberculosis, mastoiditis, and diabetes type II. | 2008-2012 IP 2008-2012 OP |
| 10/22/2009 | Charlotte Druschel | NYS Department of Health, Center for Environmental Health, Bureau of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology | 0910-08 DPRB | Upstate New York Infant Development Screening Program (Upstate KIDS) | The purpose of this study is to examine factors involved in infant growth and development, especially infertility treatments, such as ovulation-stimulating medications and the assisted reproductive technologies (ART), and how they adversely affect the growth, motor and social development of children from birth through age three years. This would include study of the development of major and, especially, minor neurodevelopmental impairments, along with physical growth patterns (length, width, head circumference and proportionality (weight-for-length). Major impairments include cerebral palsy, mental retardation, blindness, deafness, and multiple impairments based upon a diagnosis by a health professional. Minor impairments include deficits in motor skills, language skills, perception, vision, hearing and cognition. Secondarily, the occurrence of birth defect and childhood cancer will be examined. | 2008-2011 IP 2008-2011 OP |
| 10/22/2009 | Kathleen Masiulis | Long Island Health Network(LIHN) | 0910-07 DPRB | Research Project on Hospital Readmission Rates for Potentially Preventable Conditions | The purpose of the project is to compare case-mix and risk-adjusted utilization, variations of length of stay, disease dynamics, and health economics for patient use patterns measured as inpatient hospital and emergency department readmission 30-days, 90-days, and 180-days (after discharge from a previous inpatient hospital stay) at the 10 member hospitals of the Long Island Health Network compared to other hospitals on Long Islands and statewide. | 2008-2012 IP 2008-2012 ED |
| 10/22/2009 | Alexander Opotowsky | Children´s Hospital Boston, Department of Cardiology | 0910-06 DPRB | The Epidemiology and Determinants of Hospitalization for Pulmonary Hypertension | The primary purpose of this study is to better understand the epidemiology of hospital admission and readmission in patients with pulmonary hypertension: to estimate frequency of and indications for pulmonary hypertension hospital admission for 1998 and 2007; and to determine the predictors of length of stay, death during hospitalization, hospital readmission, and the determinants of costs associated with hospitalization. | 1998-2012 IP 1998-2012 OP |
| 10/22/2009 | David Gould | United Hospital Fund of New York City | 0910-05 DPRB | Using Queuing Theory to Determine Appropriate Hospital Capacity Levels in New York | This study will use queuing models to determine whether sufficient hospital capacity exists in New York Hospitals. It will focus on obstetric services first, and it is planned to use a similar methodology to explore hospital capacity in other areas such as intensive care. | 2005-2007 IP |
| 10/22/2009 | Howard Berliner | SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Department of Health Policy and Management | 0910-04 DPRB | Evaluation of Patients' Primary Care Usage Prior to Their Hospital Visit(s) | Health insurers´ encounter data for all non-hospital health care services will be matched to SPARCS inpatient and outpatient records to evaluate patients' primary care usage prior to hospital visits. Avoidable hospital conditions for so-called "ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ASC)" are a valid indicator of access to timely and effective disease prevention, and primary care services that reduce the probability of hospitalization of medical conditions treated more effectively outside the hospital setting before flare-ups lead to hospital admission. There is a wide-spread agreement that differences in rates of ASC among neighborhoods reflect differences in access to primary care, not population health status. Studies in the U.S. have found that the uninsured are more likely to be admitted to hospitals with ASC because they are less likely to receive appropriate and timely primary care than those with insurance. | 2008 IP 2008 OP |
| 10/22/2009 | Jerrold Hirsch | North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, Strategic Planning and Program Development | 0910-03 DPRB | Hospital and Market Utilization Study | The purpose of this study is to identify hospital and market inpatient, outpatient and emergency utilization. Health conditions included in this study are any clinical condition that warrants the use of one of the above services. Trends in hospital, ambulatory and emergency utilization will be studied in order to develop appropriate programs and services for the community. | 1995-2012 IP 1995-2012 OP |
| 10/22/2009 | Wendy Wilcox | NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Bureau of Maternal, Infant, and Reproductive Health | 0910-02 DPRB | Enhanced Surveillance of Maternal Mortality in New York City | This is an ongoing surveillance project that examines maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in New York City. With 24.8 deaths per 100,000 live births (2007 data from the New York City Bureau of Vital Statistics), New York City ranks significantly above the national average (13.3 deaths/100,000 in 2006) in maternal mortality. In 2007, the maternal mortality ratio for non-Hispanic Black women in New York City was more than twelve times that of non-Hispanic Whites. The purpose of this study is to identify data trends that will form practice guidelines and policy interventions that aim to reduce overall maternal deaths and severe morbidity, as well as decrease the racial disparity in maternal mortality seen among New York City women. | 2009-2012 IP |
| 10/22/2009 | Amresh Hanchate | Boston University School of Medicine, Health Care Research Unit, Section of General Internal Medicine | 0910-01 DPRB | Racial & Ethnic Disparities in the Use of Inpatient Care and Outcomes Among Low-Income Medicare Enrollees | The study will examine the following nine inpatient medical and surgical cohorts: congestive heart failure (CHF), pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), acute stroke, hip fracture, cancer of breast, cancer of prostate, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The basis for selecting admission cohorts relates to the fact that there are varying levels of emergent need for inpatient care. Some hospital services are almost always planned events in which patient selection for the site of care may be very relevant, and some hospital services are almost always unplanned events in which patient selection for the site of care is unlikely to be relevant. | 2006-2012 IP |
| 10/19/2009 | David Dranove | Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Department of Management and Strategy, Center for Health Industry Market Economics | 09100905 | Health Care Report Cards and Patient Sorting | This project will analyze the effect of report cards on patient sorting by examining the data on all patients receiving coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). | 1988-1994 IP |
| 10/15/2009 | Maria Foti | Catholic Health Systems (CHS) | 09101304 | Catholic Health Systems Facility Planning | Service utilization analysis and mapping will be utilized to assist Catholic Health Systems in facility planning programs and services to better serve the community. | 2006 IP 2006 OP |
| 10/8/2009 | Mary Paris | Excellus Health Plan (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rochester) | 09100803 | The Facts About Common Surgical Procedures in New York State | The data will be analyzed in Statistical Analysis Software, and a fact sheet summarizing data on common surgeries will be created for posting on a website. | 2006-2008 IP 2006-2008 OP |
| 10/6/2009 | Stephan Kotsch | Unity Health System | 09100502 | Integrated Strategic and Financial Planning | Data will be used and presented in aggregate to determine the competitive position of Unity Health System in the current market. | 2004-2012 IP 2004-2012 OP |
| 10/6/2009 | Karen Dietz | Bon Secours Charity Health System | 09100201 | Hospital Operations and Outcomes Analysis | This project will track and report on key clinical and utilization measures. | 2006-2009 IP 2006-2009 OP |
| 9/30/2009 | Nancy Erickson | New Solutions, Inc. | 09092504 | Uniform Billing Data For Clinical Outcomes Research | Data will undergo initial validation to confirm control totals and presence of expected variables. Data will be regrouped using Health Services Software (HSS) Diagnosis Related Group groupers for New York Version 9 (NYV9) all-payers and a current Potential Preventable Services grouper. Data will be costed using the charges provided on the data and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reported cost-to-change ratio from the cost reports. | 2006-2008 AS |
| 9/28/2009 | Kelly Koniewicz | Health Market Science, Inc. | 09091002 | Trends Analysis | The project involves trend analysis of claims data to identify important changes going on in hospital discharges. | 2008 IP 2008 OP |
| 9/25/2009 | John Muldoon | National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) | 09082109 | NACHRI Classification Research Database Building Project | The 2007 New York State inpatient discharge data will be included along with data from 16-20 other states in a large national database built for NACHRI by Thomson Reuters. NACHRI will use this database as part of its classification research, case mix comparative reporting and policy analysis activities. | 2007 IP |
