You work for a large teaching hospital affiliated with a college that has Master

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You work for a large teaching hospital affiliated with a college that has Masters and Baccalaureate degree programs in Health Information Management and Informatics (HIM). You have been asked to speak with the HIM students about your role in assisting the physicians and medical students intern about conducting research utilizing patient record data. Often, the research projects lead to accessing benchmark data for comparison. As part of your presentation, you offer the students access to the vital statistics in the public database with the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) as a resource for benchmark data. Visit the web links section of the student companion website for access to the database.

1.  Select a topic of interest from the tables offered in the database and customize your search to obtain findings of your selected group population.

2.  Print a chart diagram (graph) of the customized report you create.

3. Write a paragraph that briefly summarizes your graphed findings.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ (Links to an external site.)

Explanation / Answer

As per your question,my topic of interest from tables offered in database,is national death index

The National Death Index (NDI) is a centralized database of death record information on file in state vital statistics offices. Working with these state offices, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) established the NDI as a resource to aid epidemiologists and other health and medical investigators with their mortality ascertainment activities.

for more information on preparing the table and its explanation,please visit the website - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ndi/completion_status.htm

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