schema: CMS Data Entrepreneurs’ Synthetic Public Use File Schema

Description Usage Format

Description

Includes information about the schema of the tables that were sourced from CMS, the CMS 2008-2010 Data Entrepreneurs’ Synthetic Public Use File (DE-SynPUF). This package include 500 randomly selected beneficiaries from the 2008 file in sample 2, along with their associated beneficiary records and claims for 2008 and 2009. Not all variables from the DE-SynPUF are columns in the data in this package: numbered fields (e.g., claims diagnosis codes) were limited to the first 5 to limit file size. Full documentation for the DE-SynPUF is available for sample 2 from CMS.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 5 rows and 5 variables:

TABLE

Name of the DE_SynPUF table

TABLE_TITLE

Full title of the DE_SynPUF table

TABLE_DESCRIPTION

Description of the DE_SynPUF table

UNIT_OF_RECORD

Description of the type of records in the table

PROPERTIES

The properties of the table as a nested table containing the VARIABLE, the data TYPE, and a DESCRIPTION of the columns


jfangmeier/claimsdb documentation built on Feb. 14, 2022, 6:01 a.m.