Site Definition and Sample Design for the Community Tracking Study

This technical document outlines the methodology used to define study sites and design the sampling framework for the Community Tracking Study, a major research initiative of the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). The publication details how communities were selected, how site boundaries were drawn, and how sample designs were structured to support both community-level and national-level analyses of health system change.

The full text of this technical paper was originally made available in portable document format (PDF) through the HSC archives.

Sources and Further Reading

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — Federal agency for health care quality research.

CMS — Quality Initiatives — Federal quality measurement and improvement programs.

Health Affairs — Peer-reviewed health policy research.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation — Health policy research and programs.

Commonwealth Fund — Research on health care quality and system performance.