MEPS HC-051E:Data Use Agreement • March 12th, 2003
Contract Type FiledMarch 12th, 2003Individual identifiers have been removed from the microdata contained in the files in this release. Nevertheless, under sections 308 (d) and 903 (c) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 242m and 42 U.S.C. 299 a-1), data collected by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and/or the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) may not be used for any purpose other than for the purpose for which they were supplied; any effort to determine the identity of any reported cases is prohibited by law.