Technical Notes

The Chicago Department of Public Health’s (CDPH) Chicago Health and Health Systems Project draws upon multiple data sources to provide a comprehensive picture of the health of Chicagoans and the systems that serve them. These technical notes present relevant information to maximize the user’s understanding of the Community Health Profiles and Hospital Profiles and decrease the opportunity for misinterpretation.

Specifically, these notes include information in six areas:

• Data Sources: a description of the ten data sources used to develop the profiles.
• Profile Contents: a review of the categories of information presented in the profiles.
• Identification of Facilities Included in Profiles: a description of methods used to identify hospitals and primary health care facilities in Chicago.
• Glossary of Terms / Definitions of Measures: a review of the terms used in the profiles and, where necessary, a description of how measures were calculated.
• Challenges: a description of challenges encountered in developing the profiles.
• Special Notes: comments specific to individual providers or datasets.

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