From Alice_Rarig@health.state.ak.us Wed Feb 13 18:46:44 2002 Received: from mailscan6.cac.washington.edu (mailscan6.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1E2khMr089570 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:46:43 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan6.cac.washington.edu ; Wed Feb 13 18:46:43 2002 -0800 Received: from as-jnu1e.state.ak.us (as-jnu1e.health.state.ak.us [146.63.177.19]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1E2kgpj010293 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:46:42 -0800 Received: by as-jnu1e.health.state.ak.us with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <1P049X2H>; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:46:41 -0900 Message-ID: <1623C91D4EB2D4118A2900A0C9E92D3E02ADDC3E@AS-JNU3E> From: "Rarig, Alice" To: "'waphgis@u.washington.edu'" Subject: RE: Tracking medical variation in surgical.. Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 17:46:40 -0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Have you checked the NCHS HDDS (Hospital discharge data set) which is sample based but has some data that may be useful for regional variation; within a state you might check Missouri's HDDS on its MICA system to see if the procedure frequency data is available by county of residence. Be careful to acknowledge the differences in what populations are served if you start looking at particular cities or places -- people travel for surgery. What kind of "variation" are you talking about? Alice J. Rarig, MA MPH PhD Manager, Data and Evaluation Unit Division of Public Health Alaska Department of Health and Social Services PO Box 110618 Juneau, AK 99811-0618 Phone (907) 465-1285 Fax (907) 465-8637 -----Original Message----- From: Edie Moussa [mailto:emoussa@vt.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:32 PM To: waphgis@u.washington.edu Subject: Tracking medical variation in surgical.. Hello! I need some help. Does anyone know where I might get some data sets on variation in hysterectomies, prostatectomies, and tonsillectomies across the US, or even in one state? Edie Moussa, Ph.D. Student Complete Amateur GISer >===== Original Message From waphgis@u.washington.edu ===== >Laurie and Dick, > >Thanks for a nifty idea! The MapScan program is really neat. Now I can >scan a map directly, register it, and use it as the base layer in an >application. This also simplifies the process of using a trace routine >to extract interesting features. This is a huge improvement over the >tedious process of digitizing paper maps by hand. > >I recommend this approach to all GIS folks who, like me, occasionally >find that the only source of important data is located on paper >(sometimes even hand drawn!) maps. Thanks again for a great suggestion. > >Tom Anderson, PhD, MD, MPH >ER Physician and Amateur GISer .