Support services for the NIDDK Epidemiology Coordinating Committee

NIDDK管辖下的疾病的宝贵数据来源存在于各种公共领域的调查中，例如由国家卫生统计中心(NCHS)进行的调查、由Medicare和Medicaid服务中心(CMS)收集的数据、卫生保健研究和质量机构(AHRQ)以及其他政府计划。尽管这些计划根据他们的调查发布一般报告，他们的资源不足以分析通过这些调查收集的大量数据，也不足以开发满足NIDDK及其支持者的信息需求所需的详细和独特的分析。NIDDK流行病学委员会的科学家利用联邦政府以外的个人研究人员开发的数据集，向NIDDK科学家提供合作分析。

Valuable sources of data about diseases under the purview of NIDDK exist in various surveys that are in public domain, such as those conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), data collected by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), and other government programs.  Although these programs publish general reports based on their surveys, their resources are insufficient to analyze the numerous data collected through these surveys or to develop the detailed and unique analyses required to satisfy the information needs of the NIDDK and their constituency.  The NIDDK Epidemiology Committee scientists utilize data sets developed by individual researchers outside of the Federal government are made available to NIDDK scientists for collaborative analysis.