/PRNewswire/ Economic activity in the hospital subsector grew in November for the 30th consecutive month, say the nation s hospital supply executives in the.
/PRNewswire/ Economic activity in the hospital subsector grew in October for the 29th consecutive month, say the nation s hospital supply executives in the.
/PRNewswire/ Economic activity in the hospital subsector grew in September for the 28th consecutive month, say the nation s hospital supply executives in.
/PRNewswire/ Economic activity in the hospital subsector grew in August for the 27th consecutive month, say the nation s hospital supply executives in the.
Electronic Health Record (EHR) data are increasingly being used to monitor population health on account of their timeliness, granularity, and large sample sizes. While EHR data are often sufficient to estimate disease prevalence and trends for large geographic areas, the same accuracy and precision may not carry over for smaller areas that are sparsely represented by non-random samples. We developed small-area estimation models using a combination of EHR data drawn from MDPHnet, an EHR-based public health surveillance network in Massachusetts, the American Community Survey, and state hospitalization data. We estimated municipality-specific prevalence rates of asthma, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and smoking in each of the 351 municipalities in Massachusetts in 2016. Models were compared against Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) state and small area estimates for 2016. Integrating progressively more variables into prediction models generally reduced mean absolute er