The Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11025876
AutoresSamuel H Zuvekas (Samuel H. Zuvekas and David Kashihara are with the Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.), David Kashihara (Samuel H. Zuvekas and David Kashihara are with the Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.)
Año2021
Volumen111
Número12
Páginas2157-2166
Fecha de publicación2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2021.306534
PMID34878880
OpenAlexW4200409566
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas11

The COVID-19 pandemic caused substantial disruptions in the field operations of all 3 major components of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). The MEPS is widely used to study how policy changes and major shocks, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, affect insurance coverage, access, and preventive and other health care utilization and how these relate to population health. We describe how the MEPS program successfully responded to these challenges by reengineering field operations, including survey modes, to complete data collection and maintain data release schedules. The impact of the pandemic on response rates varied considerably across the MEPS. Investigations to date show little effect on the quality of data collected. However, lower response rates may reduce the statistical precision of some estimates. We also describe several enhancements made to the MEPS that will allow researchers to better understand the impact of the pandemic on US residents, employers, and the US health care system. (Am J Public Health. 2021;111(12):2157–2166. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306534 )

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Data collection · Disease · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Health care · Health insurance · Medical Expenditure Panel Survey · Pandemic · Population · Public health · Statistics · Survey data collection · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · Health disparities and outcomes · Healthcare Policy and Management · Medicine · Nursing