The HELP (Health Evaluation and Linkage to Primary Care) study was a clinical trial for adult inpatients recruited from a detoxification unit. Patients with no primary care physician were randomized to receive a multidisciplinary assessment and a brief motivational intervention or usual care, with the goal of linking them to primary medical care. The Institutional Review Board of Boston University Medical Center approved all aspects of the study, including the creation of the de-identified dataset available on this page. Variables included in the HELP dataset are described in Table C.2 (p. 279) while Table C.1 (p. 277) provides a comprehensive listing of analyses undertaken in the book using the dataset.
HELP (Health Evaluation and Linkage to Primary Care) dataset (see Appendix C, p. 277)
- help.csv (Comma separated)
- help.sas7bdat (SAS format)
- help.dta (Stata format)
- help.Rdata (R format)
Other HELP study information and datasets
- Full copy of study instruments
- help.xml (XML format, see section 1.1.7, p. 6)
- helpmiss.csv (Comma separated missing data, see section 6.5, p. 228)
- helpmiss.sas7bdat (SAS format missing data, see section 6.5, p. 228)
- helpmiss.dta (Stata format missing data, see section 6.5, p. 228)
Massachusetts County dataset (see section 6.4, p. 224)
- co25_d00a.dat County names
- co25_d00.dat County boundaries
Baseball (see blog)