Questions tagged [medical]
Healthcare, the body, medicine, medical research, pharmacology, anatomy, etc
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COVID19 - Coronavirus case data (country summary data)
There are some very good sites showing the state of infections 'now', but I would like to find a data set of COVID-19 infections, deaths and number of tests by day and by country. These are the best I ...
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Age, Weight and Height dataset
I am trying to get a dataset (preferable worldwide) that has the attributes (height, weight and age). The only decent dataset that I have been able to find was from here: https://stats.stackexchange....
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2014 Ebola outbreak dataset
I'm looking for a dataset on the 2014 Ebola outbreak with as many following fields as possible:
For each individual contaminated with ebola:
Estimated datetime and location of detection
Datetime and ...
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Dataset on coronavirus government countermeasures (per country/region/city?)
I am looking for a machine readable dataset of what country has enacted what form of lockdown on what date, and possibly the "type" of lockdown (international travel/national and international travel, ...
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De-identified patient data
Are there any medical or clinical data sources that have de-identified patient data (name, date of birth, sex) as well as basic physical parameters such as weight, or height? I'm specifically ...
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COVID-19 Clinical Data or Statistics
Is there anywhere a database that includes case-level information on COVID-19 cases?
Such data would typically include patient demographics and/or health information, location, time of onset/testing, ...
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Where can I find massive and high dimensional survival datasets
I am working on developing some high-dimensional survival analysis methods with R, but I do not know where to find such high-dimensional survival datasets.
Could anyone tell me where to find such ...
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Is there a better public version of USA's Social Security Death Master File?
USA data on death can be obtained via Social Security as SSDI (death index) and SSDMF (death master file).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index
One site http://ssdmf.info offers ...
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Deaths by falling coconuts
I am looking for the number of deaths caused by the natural fall of coconuts from trees each year.
Number of deaths each year worldwide, estimated if needed
Bonus for extra information about each ...
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Validity, Utility and Cost of Clinical Tests
Medical tests are characterized by validity, utility and cost:
Validity is the probability that the test results are correct.
Utility is the usefulness of having correct results (e.g. how much life ...
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What server and technologies can I use to extract data out of Wikipedia's infoboxes (e.g., ATC code for drugs)
Wikipedia is a significant source of data. Data from Wikipedia may be available in various formats via other servers (e.g., SPARQL end point).
For a task of extracting all pairs of "ATC code" - "...
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Automobile accident data in the US
A friend's question:
Are there data about automobile accidents over the course of a year with daily increments and preferably with a large variety of filters like city, highway, etc?
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Query medicine descriptions API
I am looking for publicly available API for querying medicine's descriptions. For example, if I supply Carbidopa/Levodopa or Sinemet the expected return data (in json or xml format) is a simple ...
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Protected health information in different countries
I'm looking for a dataset that would gather the different categories of protected health information (PHIs) in different countries. I am only interested in electronic health records.
For example, in ...
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Data for "Driving is Why You're Fat" graph
I'm reviewing this Driving is Why You're Fat graph and would like to find the data behind it, preferably the actual data and not just the ranks. The data sources are vaguely cited in the lower right ...
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Looking for datasets of tumor or cancer growth
We are having a school project on a mathematical model of tumor growth. We would like to compare our model to the real data. Despite a lot of search we couldn't find any open data on the web. Hence, ...
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College student suicide dataset
I am looking for a dataset listing college student suicides (preferably in the US) with as many following fields as possible:
college name
date/time
age
gender
major/minor
reason of suicide
method ...
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Database of self-inflicted injuries?
I need a database of self-inflicted injuries, their prevalence, age, gender and area distribution and the nature of the injury. This is very specific but could have a huge impact in my research. Any ...
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Where can I get the images data set of skin diseases?
I want to search on images of skin diseases corpus. I need this dataset to index images in my search engine. Please suggest me how and from where i can get those images.
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Disease and Symptoms Hierarchy
I have a huge list of symptoms (1 million rows+ ). I would like to reduce the data by grouping the symptoms. For example, lower abdominal pain and upper abdominal pain are in the "abdominal pain&...
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Hospital originated infections and mishaps
NPR and other news organizations are citing a dataset analyzed by Kaiser from the CDC:
Created with Datawrapper
Source: Kaiser Health News analysis of CDC data Get the data
Would anyone know where ...
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Medical Terminology in Patient Medical Records - Public Data Sets
I am interested in sample data of real patient medical records (anonymized or demographics removed completely) for the purpose of running through NLP system - specifically diagnoses, admissions and ...
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Understanding the population sample represented in CDC WONDER database
I’m trying to understand the population numbers in the CDC WONDER database when querying information regarding STD morbidity.
If I build the following query:
Age: 20-24 years
Disease: All
Gender: ...
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A database of drugs and their targets
Do you know if there is any free for commercial and non-commercial project database with drugs information and their targets?
For example:
Drug name: Paracetamol
Chemical Formula: C8H9NO2
Target: ...
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How do I find out how much doctors get reimbursed by medicare for certain procedures?
Financial incentives are often an important driver of people's actions. I want to better understand how different medical procedures get reimbursed in the US by medicare. Unfortunately I couldn't find ...
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Any dataset containing the price/charge that patients "actually" pay for their health care service?
I have looked through several data sources--OSHPD, HCUP, Medicare--looking for any data (restricted or public use) on what uninsured patients "actually" pay (as opposed to what they were initially ...
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Where can I find open data on healthcare quality indicators?
I've been working with HEDIS measures for quality measurement in healthcare in the US, but most of what I have seen is proprietary. I'm interested in reproducible research hence my need for open data. ...
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Vaccination policies
I am looking for a data set containing vaccination policies by country, and if possible by year. Ideally, the vaccination policy would be stored in some machine-readable format.
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Are there anonymized medical records publicly available for research?
I realize this is kind of a long shot, but I figured I would ask - I'm try to do large scale analysis of medical data for research purposes, but it's exceedingly difficult to get access to medical ...
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Global HIV Incidence Raw Data
All information I can find on global HIV incidence broken down into male/female categories is in the form of already processed charts. I've attempted to find a raw HIV dataset that breaks down into a ...
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Missing medical device recall information? OpenFDA not finding recalls from FDA database
To ensure I was understanding how openFDA works, I have been checking my queries against the searchable medical device recall database the FDA already has (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/...
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Can I aggregate and reformat publicly available data for teaching?
I work and teach in a field where public data is scarce (anatomical MRI processing). I planned to organize a few practical works for students this semester. I had a pretty hard time gathering publicly ...
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Are there any (openly) available data sets for medical coding examples?
Are there any data sets of medical coding examples available online?
Eg. Doctor's notes and resulting (correct/accepted) procedure and diagnosis codes for individual encounters or samples of ...
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Diabetes patient record data sets?
Are there any data sets of diabetes patient records? Logs of blood sugars, carbohydrate, activity etc plus other stats like age, height, weight.
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Database of wheelchair-accessible places
I want to know whether a place is wheelchair-accessible or not.
Data for the whole world would be best, but data for specific countries/cities is OK too.
Data must be reusable in Wikivoyage, which is ...
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Open Source MRI Image Dataset
I'm working on a voxel-based modelling application and one of the features that I've implemented is a method to do a 3D mesh reconstruction from a series of 2D image slices (similar to an MRI). I've ...
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Open datasets on medicine/drugs and its uses in treatment
I'm looking for a dataset that contains a list of medicine/drugs and what is it used for.
Example :
Medicine To treat
Paracetamol Pain
Paracetamol Fever
Adderall Narcolepsy
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Do you know where I can find health data sets?
I am new to the world of data science. I was wondering if anyone knew where I can find health datasets? Specifically heart disease data on minorities in the US.
Any suggestions or guidance will be ...
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Is there any open data for Emergency Room waiting time?
I am a software engineering student who is thinking to build a Dashboard for ER waiting times. Potentially it could tell your whether a longer trip could still save you time. There's currently no way ...
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Kidney transplant dataset
I'm looking for raw data regarding kidney transplant or any organ transplant in order to perform a survival analysis with random effects given by some kind of attributes such as hospital dimension/...
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Current biohazard/disease outbreak dataset
I am looking for api or dataset that shows current disease outbreaks and/or biohazards around the world. I have not been able to locate this yet.
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Dataset of adulteration incidents
I'm looking for a dataset of adulteration incidents containing as many following fields as possible:
name of the adulterant(s) (an adulterant is a substance found within other substances such as food,...
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Any databases with this data?
Has anybody seen a medical data set with:
clinical data (patient's age, gender, prior history, and stuff like that)
biomarkers (blood pressure, blood oxygenation, etc.)
genetic data (...
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Where can I get a data set of medical information of healthy people?
I'm developing a data mining application for healthcare sector. I need a data set that would give information on age, blood pressure, specific gravity(of blood and plasma), sugar, amount of red blood ...
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Hospital infection data
I am looking for hospital infection data sets for modelling purposes: time series about infections such as MRSA, VRE, etc. The data set should contain incidence/prevalence time series in a hospital ...
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Finding data yielded in search results
I am looking to access datasets surrounding Medicaid enrollment, Medicaid buy-in, Medicaid statistics, eligibility criteria, etc. My searches yield plenty of results, but the actual data comes back ...
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How to convert risk adjustment scores into dollar amounts from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey?
I want to take the 2002-2009 Risk Adjustment Scores of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and convert them to dollar amounts.
The documentation has a table for conversion, but I do not know which to ...
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I need a list of medications, diagnoses, and medical terms for a police report auto publication project
I have a project with a police department in Washington State that is about to start where I will be automatically publishing police reports not requiring redaction per the state public records act. I ...
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Raw data on sexual behavior
I am a college students doing a small research project on sexual behavior and was wondering if there was any raw data on sexual behavior that I would be able to access. It would really help me out. ...
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World dataset of hospitals
I am looking for a (global) dataset of hospitals: mainly locations, but if possible also names, sizes, number of beds. As far as I can tell, this does not exist yet, but perhaps there are good ...
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