National Medical Expenditure Survey: Questionnaires and Data Collection Methods for the Institutional Population Component. Methods 1

摘要

The report from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey describes the operational design and instruments of the Institutional Population Component. The component comprises a set of surveys that collected information for calendar year 1987 on demographic characteristics, health and functional status, use of medical and other health care services, and related expenditures by approximately 11,000 individuals residing in one of about 1,500 sampled nursing and personal care homes and facilities for the mentally retarded at some time during the year. These facility residents represent the majority of the civilian institutionalized population in the United States. Information on both facility characteristics and residents was collected from facility administrators and caregivers in four rounds of interviews at the facility site. Personal and background information on the residents was collected from next of kin or other knowledgeable respondents over the course of the year in four or five interviews, depending on the time of selection into the sample. The report discusses in detail instrument design and data collection procedures and includes extensive exhibits illustrating the scope and focus of the various data collection instruments.