Description & Citation--Study No. 2597 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 2597 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02597 |
| Title: | Community Tracking Study Physician Survey, 1996-1997: [United States] |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Center for Studying Health System Change |
| Series: | Community Tracking Study Series |
| Funding Agency: | The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
| Grant Number: | 29275 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Center for Studying Health System Change. COMMUNITY TRACKING STUDY PHYSICIAN SURVEY, 1996-1997: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. 2nd ICPSR version. Washington, DC: Center for Studying Health System Change [producer], 2001. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2001. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This survey is one component of the Community Tracking Study (CTS), sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The CTS is a national study designed to track changes in the health care system and the effects of the changes on care delivery and on individuals. Central to the design of the CTS is its community focus. Sixty sites (51 metropolitan areas and 9 nonmetropolitan areas) were randomly selected to form the core of the CTS and to be representative of the nation as a whole. The Physician Survey was administered to physicians in the 60 CTS sites and to a supplemental national sample of physicians. Information gathered by the survey instrument includes physician supply and specialty distribution, practice arrangements and physician ownership of practices, sources of practice revenue, level and determinants of physician compensation, effects of care management strategies, and physicians' allocation of time, provision of charity care, career satisfaction, and perceptions of their ability to deliver care. For primary care physicians, the survey instrument also provided vignettes of various clinical presentations for which there was no prescribed method of treatment. These physicians were asked to indicate the percentage of patients for whom they would recommend the course of action specified in each particular vignette. Part 3, the Site and County Crosswalk Data File, describes which counties constitute each site. Part 4, the Physician Survey Summary File, contains site-level averages and percentages and standard errors of these estimates for selected attributes, e.g., the percentage of physicians who were foreign medical school graduates, average age of physicians, average percentage of patient care practice revenue from Medicaid, etc. |
| Subject Term(s): | career expectations, career goals, career satisfaction, communities, counties, health care delivery, health care facilities, health care services, medical specializations, patient care, physician practice, physicians |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | August 1996 - August 1997 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | August 1996 - August 1997 |
| Universe: | Physicians who were practicing in the contiguous United States, were providing direct patient care for at least 20 hours per week, and were not federal employees. Residents and fellows, as well as physicians in selected specialties, were excluded. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
| Data Collection Notes: | (1) The data maps are provided as ASCII text files, and the codebooks and user guides are provided by the data producer as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Web site on the Internet. (2) Additional information regarding this study is located on the Web site of the Center for Studying Health System Change, http://www.hschange.com (link). |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | The CTS sites were selected using stratified sampling with probability proportional to population size. The supplemental sample, selected with stratified random sampling, was included in the survey to increase the precision of national estimates. The sample frame was developed by combining lists of physicians from the American Medical Association and the American Osteopathic Association. |
| Data Source: | survey data |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Restrictions: | This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To preserve respondent anonymity, certain variables are restricted from general dissemination. The restricted-use version of the Main Data File contains 77 more variables than the public-use version of the Main Data File. To obtain this restricted-use file, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement (link). |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 1999-02-03 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2001-12-21. |
| 2001-12-21 - (1) Data and documentation for the Restricted-Use Version of the Main Data File (Part 2) have been updated. Several variables were revised and other variables have been added or deleted. For a complete description of the changes, see the "What's New" page in the user guide for Part 2. (2) The codebook for the Site and County Crosswalk Data File (Part 3) has been revised. (3) SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been prepared for Parts 3 and 4. | |
| 1999-11-02 - A restricted-use version of the main data file has been added to the collection as Part 2, the Site and County Crosswalk Data File has been added as Part 3, and the Physician Survey Summary File has been added as Part 4. To obtain the restricted-use file, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement. | |
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