Registries and Indices After exposure to the following areas the…

Registries and Indices 

After exposure to the following areas the student will be prepared to discuss and compare these areas to previous course curriculum.

• Master patient index / Patient index
• Disease and operation indexes
• Physician indexes
• Registries (e.g. cancer, trauma, implant, diabetes, transplant,etc.)
• Healthcare databases (e.g. MEDPAR, NPDB, HIPDB, State Administrative Databanks, Public Health, vital statistics, etc.)
• Birth, death certificates

Student Activities – Discuss in detail the objectives below: 

1. Describe how the MPI is set up at the facility.
2. Describe the various indices used at the facility (e.g. operation, physician,disease, etc.).
3. Note the position/person responsible for maintaining the various indices.
4. Describe registries utilized.
5. Describe data reporting to the state, public health, etc.
6. Describe how the facility uses MEDPAR data.
7. Is the secondary data collected from these various indices and registries automated?
8. Describe frequency of abstracting on indices and registries.
9. Describe systems used to collect data.
10. Describe frequency of data reporting.