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The wide range of data bases that can be used for Medicaid analyses and research are reviewed in this article. The Health Care Financing Administration, State Medicaid agencies, and other groups have developed useful data bases and made them available to the public. Efforts could be made to obtain better quality national data, including annual reports on State participation, expenditures and program characteristics, and person-based data bases about medicaid clients and services. State-level analyses and research could be enhanced and disseminated more widely. More complex data collection and analysis efforts are an inevitable tradeoff for the flexibility of the Federal-State structure of Medicaid.
本文回顾了可用于医疗补助分析和研究的广泛数据库。医疗保健财务管理局、州医疗补助机构及其他团体已开发出有用的数据库并向公众开放。应努力获取质量更高的全国性数据，包括关于各州参与情况、支出及项目特征的年度报告，以及有关医疗补助客户和服务的个人数据库。可加强并更广泛地传播州一级的分析和研究成果。对于医疗补助联邦-州结构的灵活性而言，更复杂的数据收集和分析工作是不可避免的权衡。
