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Resource Abstract:
description: <p>This is the official dataset associated with the Medicare.gov Physician Compare Website provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). These data give you useful information about the physicians and other healthcare professionals currently enrolled in Medicare. Currently, Physician Compare includes general information, such as demographic information and Medicare quality program participation. Quality of care measure data will be added to the site and to this database in 2014.</p> <p>Because of data use agreements with data vendors, not all data on Physician Compare can be shared in this downloadable file. For more information about what is included in this database and how it differs from the information on the Physician Compare Website, refer to the data dictionary.</p>; abstract: <p>This is the official dataset associated with the Medicare.gov Physician Compare Website provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). These data give you useful information about the physicians and other healthcare professionals currently enrolled in Medicare. Currently, Physician Compare includes general information, such as demographic information and Medicare quality program participation. Quality of care measure data will be added to the site and to this database in 2014.</p> <p>Because of data use agreements with data vendors, not all data on Physician Compare can be shared in this downloadable file. For more information about what is included in this database and how it differs from the information on the Physician Compare Website, refer to the data dictionary.</p>
Citation
Title Physician Compare Data.
creation  Date   2018-06-09T14:17:01.680477
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name Dublin Core references URL
URL:https://data.medicare.gov/data/physician-compare
protocol WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
link function information
Description URL provided in Dublin Core references element.
Metadata data stamp:  2018-08-06T19:36:53Z
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notes: This metadata record was generated by an xslt transformation from a dc metadata record; Transform by Stephen M. Richard, based on a transform by Damian Ulbricht. Run on 2018-08-06T19:36:53Z
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organisation Name  CINERGI Metadata catalog
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electronic Mail Addresscinergi@sdsc.edu
Metadata language  eng
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
standard version:  2007
Metadata record identifier:  urn:dciso:metadataabout:320e3600-560f-41ca-8d17-0b9085b1da97

Metadata record format is ISO19139 XML (MD_Metadata)