Problem Identification and Motivational Exploration Report

Problem Identification and Motivational Exploration Report

Description/Paper Instructions

Problem Identification and Motivational Exploration Report

Aim

The purpose of the phase 1 report is to find a medical condition for which you want to conduct data analyses and to have a basic understanding of the medical condition, such as the background, causes of the disease, treatments, status, and influential factors. You need data to conduct data analyses. Therefore, you need to find a dataset with which you can conduct your project. I strongly encourage you to use the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) data in this class, while I provide a list of potential datasets below. It should be noted that I will provide sample codes only for the MEPS data. For the data analysis, you should have at least 500 data instances. Therefore, please find a medical condition of interest and then check whether there are 500 data instances. More details will be explained below.

Dataset

MEPS is a set of large-scale surveys of families and individuals, their medical providers, and employers across the United States. MEPS is a complete source of data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage in the US. For more details, please visit the official website (Links to an external site.) and Github repository (Links to an external site.) and read the attached appendix document  Download attached appendix document(p.1 – 13).

MEPS data consists of various variables such as medical condition, socioeconomic factors (e.g., gender, region, race, and family income), and medical expenditure. MEPS data also consist of various files such as person-level (e.g., health status, demographics, and total $$ of care), event-level (e.g., healthcare service use), and condition-level (e.g., medical condition). For the full review of those variables, please look at codebooks (person-level (Links to an external site.))  and condition-level (Links to an external site.)). I also coded those variables regarding usefulness for analysis (included vs. excluded, Heejun_Inclusion field) and variable type (independent vs. dependent, Heejun_Variable_Type field). You can find my version of the codebook from this link (Links to an external site.). In particular there are some dependent variables you can utilize:

Total health expenditures

Total inpatient expenditures

Total emergency care expenditures

Severity of Illness (attacks/year)

Number of School Days Missed (Children)

Number of Work Days Missed (Adult)

You should explore the dataset in depth to understand what you can do and to decide what you will do. It is a complex dataset, and you need to merge a number of files into one for your project. Do not feel overwhelmed. I will introduce all procedures step by step.

Depending on the medical condition (e.g., allergic rhinitis), research goals you can set will include but are not limited to:

Predict the yearly medical expenditure of persons with allergic rhinitis

Compare healthcare costs in different social determinant factors (e.g., sex, region, family income, and race)

Find relationships between allergic rhinitis and environmental factors

If you are skilled in Python and want to use other datasets, then it is up to your group. However, please be noted that I cannot fully support your group, and my sample codes should be tweaked a lot to reflect the difference between the dataset you choose and the MEPS dataset. The following datasets are publicly available and free:

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (Links to an external site.)

Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies Program (Links to an external site.)

Add Health (Links to an external site.)

FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) (Links to an external site.)

What to Do for the Phase 1 Report

Please find a medical condition that interests your group and find an ICD-9 code of the condition from the FINDACODE.COM (Links to an external site.)

If your group decides to use the MEPS data, go to #3. If not, go to #5

Download a condition-level file (h128.csv  Download h128.csv), open the file with MS Excel, and apply a filter to the “ICD9CODX” field. Select the ICD-9 code of your condition (e.g., 493 for asthma) and check the number of records (i.e., number of rows selected) related to your condition. This number would include duplicated records

To remove duplicated records and count the number of unique records,

Select the “DUPERSID” field and copy all selected DUPERSIDs. While copying, you should copy visible cells only. If not, you are going to copy all DUPERSIDs in the column. To copy “visible cells only”, please follow the instruction found at the Microsoft Support (Links to an external site.)

The DUPERSID uniquely identifies each person represented on the file. In other words, DUPERSID is a sample person identifier

Then, paste copied DUPERSIDs to another sheet (+ menu in the bottom)

Remove duplicates (“Data” -> “Remove Duplicates”) and count the number of records (i.e., DUPERSIDs).

If the number of DUPERSIDs is larger than 500, you are good. Congratulations! Your medical condition meets the requirement of the project. If not, you do not have enough data for the project. Unfortunately, you need to find another medical condition and iterate the steps from 3 to 4.D until you can find a condition with more than 500 records

If you selected another dataset, it’s your responsibility to conduct steps from 3 to 4.D by yourself. Your workflow should do the same procedures as my suggested workflow does

How to write

Please write a report and cite appropriately.reason of your interest.

What to include

Your submission of the report should include:

Names of students in your project group (up to three students)

EUIDs of group members

Title of the project

Medical condition

Data source

Number of data records

What I asked you in the “How to Write”

The order of contributions (i.e., work distribution) like authorship (e.g., first author, second author, third author, and so on.)

If you believe that some of you or all of you contributed equally, then you need to state it

Here, contributions include all phases you worked to submit this project report

Please attach a .docx file. All group members should submit the same copy of the report.

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Use of Sources (worth a maximum of 20% of the total points). Zero points:  Student failed to include citations and/or references. Or the student failed to submit a final paper. 5 out 20 points:  Sources are seldom cited to support statements and/or format of citations are not recognizable as APA 6th Edition format. There are major errors in the formation of the references and citations. And/or there is a major reliance on highly questionable. The Student fails to provide an adequate synthesis of research collected for the paper. 10 out 20 points:  References to scholarly sources are occasionally given; many statements seem unsubstantiated.  Frequent errors in APA 6th Edition format, leaving the reader confused about the source of the information. There are significant errors of the formation in the references and citations. And/or there is a significant use of highly questionable sources. 15 out 20 points:  Credible Scholarly sources are used effectively support claims and are, for the most part, clear and fairly represented.  APA 6th Edition is used with only a few minor errors.  There are minor errors in reference and/or citations. And/or there is some use of questionable sources. 20 points:  Credible scholarly sources are used to give compelling evidence to support claims and are clearly and fairly represented.  APA 6th Edition format is used accurately and consistently. The student uses above the maximum required references in the development of the assignment. Grammar (worth maximum of 20% of total points) Zero points:  Student failed to submit the final paper. 5 points out of 20:  The paper does not communicate ideas/points clearly due to inappropriate use of terminology and vague language; thoughts and sentences are disjointed or incomprehensible; organization lacking; and/or numerous grammatical, spelling/punctuation errors  10 points out 20:  The paper is often unclear and difficult to follow due to some inappropriate terminology and/or vague language; ideas may be fragmented, wandering and/or repetitive; poor organization; and/or some grammatical, spelling, punctuation errors 15 points out of 20:  The paper is mostly clear as a result of appropriate use of terminology and minimal vagueness; no tangents and no repetition; fairly good organization; almost perfect grammar, spelling, punctuation, and word usage. 20 points:  The paper is clear, concise, and a pleasure to read as a result of appropriate and precise use of terminology; total coherence of thoughts and presentation and logical organization; and the essay is error free. 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The paper has slight errors within the paper. This can include small errors or omissions with the cover page, abstract, page number, and headers. There could be also slight formatting issues with the document spacing or the font Additionally the paper might slightly exceed or undershoot the specific number of required written pages for the assignment. 10 points: Student provides a high-caliber, formatted paper. This includes an APA 6th edition cover page, abstract, page number, headers and is double spaced in 12’ Times Roman Font. Additionally, the paper conforms to the specific number of required written pages and neither goes over or under the specified length of the paper.
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