Questions tagged [medical]

Healthcare, the body, medicine, medical research, pharmacology, anatomy, etc

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How do I find out how much doctors get reimbursed by medicare for certain procedures?

Financial incentives are often an important driver of people's actions. I want to better understand how different medical procedures get reimbursed in the US by medicare. Unfortunately I couldn't find the price list via Google myself. Is there a…
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Are there anonymized medical records publicly available for research?

I realize this is kind of a long shot, but I figured I would ask - I'm try to do large scale analysis of medical data for research purposes, but it's exceedingly difficult to get access to medical records in any large quantity. Is there data…
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Open database with incidence of diseases by their ICD-10 codes?

Is there an open database that gives links ICD-10 codes with the prevelance of the diesease they represent?
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Do we have any API for "all" Drugs ?

Its there any API for all Drugs existed if yes can you explain when can I find IT.
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Commercial Medical Diagnostic testing Precision and Accuracy

Since the accuracy and precision (repeatability) of a test is relevant to any decision; how do I find (or phrase) search's to find data on this for commercial clinics? I used to work for an animal diagnostic company and they continually evaluated…
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Doctors and Insurance Networks

Where can I find a database of doctors and accepted insurances? The closest I've gotten is https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/api/ but while that includes what looks like insurers under the "identifiers" property, it doesn't mention specifically which…
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Suicide statistics

I am doing a project and I am having trouble finding statistics about suicide and links to depression, anxiety and alcohol abuse. I'm not sure if this is where to ask, but if you could help me, that would be appreciated.
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US Hospitals by Number of Beds

Where can one find a list of all US hospitals with the number of licensed beds? I believe that CMS provides this data somewhere, but I cannot find it!
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Cost of retirement housing in the regionally in the UK

I was wondering if anyone knew of a data source that had the cost of retirement housing in the UK split by region or postcode?
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What are the sites to download kidney function datasets?

In desperate need for a site that provides medical datasets around kidney function tests (Kidney failure tests) and kidney failure CT scans (datasets) for my graduation project.
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Dataset of spirometric surveys

For a school project I am making an analytical engine for a spirometry platform (pulmanary function test, measuring lung function). The idea is that measurements made with our spirometer infrastructure automatically get uploaded to a database, where…
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Wiki site for consumer medical device feature comparison tables?

With the increased marketing of sophisticated medical devices to consumers, it would seem that a central repository for public, wiki-based feature comparison tables would be a big help. But AFAICS, no such tables exist as a public wiki that could be…
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Data Set for Quantile Regression in Survival Analysis

I am new to Open Data SE and to Survival Regression: I must prepare an essay about using Quantille Regression in Survival Analysis and I have no idea which data would be proper. I think that when I want to use Quantille Regression this data should…
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Is there a data source indicating how long most major surgeries take, and what are the associated risks/outcomes?

I'm looking to play around with statistics around major surgery types; is there a publicly available data source I can work with which lists information such as: types of major surgeries, together with amount of time per procedure (average, standard…
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Open and free electronic Case Report Form e-CRF system options

Does anyone know any good platform for gathering clinical data during clinical trials? I was not able to set up Open Clinica... I think that this problem should be addressed more easily with a form for data acquisition. I am looking for a simple…
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