Support services for the NIDDK Epidemiology Coordinating Committee

在NIDDK的职权范围内，有价值的疾病数据来源存在于公共领域的各种调查中，例如由国家卫生统计中心（NCHS）进行的调查，由医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心（CMS）、卫生保健研究和质量局（AHRQ）和其他政府项目收集的数据。尽管这些项目根据他们的调查发布了一般报告，但他们的资源不足以分析通过这些调查收集的大量数据，也不足以进行详细而独特的分析，以满足NIDDK及其支持者的信息需求。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.