Analysis on Rural and Urban Health Disparities
#Purpose
Using data on Home Health agencies from the Home Health Compare and Area Health Resource File we are performing an analysis on patients quality outcomes via composite scores on Harm Reduction, Activities of Daily Living, Pain Management, etc. Our hope is to shed insight into the gaps between rural and urban care providers and the factors contributing to these gaps in quality of care
All data is publicly available
#Analysis Software
All data analysis for this project was conducted in SAS and STATA Additional work was done with R to explore use of the software