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=== Anxiety and Depression Medication ===
=== Anxiety and Depression Medication ===
[[DASH Guide:Anxiety Medication]]
These datasets described here provide de-identified diagnosis data for customers (medicare, medicaid, individual, and corporate) of three managed care organizations in Allegheny County (Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC) that have filed a claim for anxiety or depression medications in 2015. The data also includes the number of enrolled members in the three participating managed care organizations in 2015.
These datasets described here provide de-identified diagnosis data for customers (medicare, medicaid, individual, and corporate) of three managed care organizations in Allegheny County (Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC) that have filed a claim for anxiety or depression medications in 2015. The data also includes the number of enrolled members in the three participating managed care organizations in 2015.


The anxiety and depression datasets were requested after the initial data list had been collected because members of the DASH Partnership wanted to explore the relationship between anxiety and depression with cardiovascular disease following receipt of the cardiovascular disease data. There is evidence that depression is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.<ref>https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/images/uploads/publications/Beyondblue_depression_CHD.pdf</ref>
The anxiety and depression datasets were requested after the initial data list had been collected because members of the DASH Partnership wanted to explore the relationship between anxiety and depression with cardiovascular disease following receipt of the cardiovascular disease data. There is evidence that depression is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.<ref>https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/images/uploads/publications/Beyondblue_depression_CHD.pdf</ref>


[[DASH Guide:Anxiety Medication]]
=== Cardiovascular Disease Co-Morbidity ===
[[DASH_Guide:Cardiovascular_Disease_Co-morbidity]]
 
These datasets provide de-identified co-morbidity diagnosis data for diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. The  data is provided by three managed care organizations in Allegheny County (Gateway Health Plan, Highmark Health, and UPMC) and represents their insured population (medicare, medicaid, individual, and corporate) for the 2015 calendar year. This data will soon be available as open data through the Regional Data Center


== Partners ==
== Partners ==

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