Q: Who will find the IPD useful?

A: The IPD will be of particular interest to those involved in market research, product development, strategic planning, new business development, clinical research, licensing, stock market analysis, and the medical field in general.


Q: What epidemiology-related topics does the IPD include?

A: The IPD contains data for over 4,000 diseases and procedures including incidence, prevalence, morbidity, mortality, trends, cost, risk-factors, and disease classifications.


Q: What types of questions is the IPD designed to answer?

A: Use the IPD to answer questions such as these:

• "How many patients have gram-negative sepsis versus streptococcal or pneumococcal sepsis?"
  
  
• "How many peripheral bypass surgeries were performed during the past five years?"
  
  
• "What does a hip replacement cost?"
  
  
• "What are the comparisons of breast cancer incidence in Japan, England, Italy, and Germany?"
  
  
• "What are the most common diseases that afflict the elderly?"

Q: Where does the IPD not apply?

A: Disease treatment, drugs in development.


Q: What kind of sources are integrated into the IPD?

A: Our sources include both online and print-based texts, government reports, medical journals, trade journals, market investment reports, database audits, industry contacts, medical and scientific associations, and national and international health care surveys. All data is referenced by source.



IPD Features
Global Incidence and Prevalence
Includes summaries of incidence and prevalence data found in medical literature. Data is fully sourced and is broken down by U.S. and international data, which includes non-U.S. country-specific data.

Statistical Summaries
The statistical summaries allow researchers the ability to see all prevalence and incidence data found in the IPD for a particular disease or procedure. In addition, the summary includes 6-year U.S. trend data for hospital inpatients, hospital outpatients, physician office visits, and emergency department visits.

Article Reviews
Article reviews provide the most diverse and specific epidemiology-related information in the IPD. TDR's researchers write the reviews to include important data from a source (e.g., a journal article) and then consolidate and organize it in a manner that is easy to browse. Article reviews are fully sourced and emphasize topics such as incidence, prevalence, disease background, morbidity, mortality, course of illness, cost, etc. Condensed notes about the study design are also included to provide vital contextual information.

Suggested Reading
While combing through medical libraries looking for data that is relevant to our database, our researchers come across many sources that do necessarily fit the scope of the IPD, but may be of interest to our clients. We make note of these sources and add them to a suggested reading list, organized by disease or procedure under the following categories: treatment, cost effectiveness/quality of life, diagnostic, etiology, histopathology, screening/testing, genetic, and general review.

Remarks
The remarks section provides researchers important information about a disease or procedure, including definitions, caveats, historical notes, and other useful facts.

Ranked Items
Ranked lists of the top 300 inpatient diseases, in/outpatient procedures, length of stay, physician office visits, emergency department visits, and outpatient that illustrate where patient activity is focused.

Overviews
Listings of general ICD-9 codes and areas of interest to make finding data for broader research easier, e.g. cancer, emergency department, general statistics, and geriatrics.

ICD-9 Index
Listing of all ICD-9 codes tracked by Timely Data Resources which includes both technical and simplified terminology, e.g., "malignant neoplasm of the breast (breast cancer)."

Census Reports
Worldwide census data for over 40 countries based on total population (broken out by gender and age).