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Mortality data (Optional Task) that are linkable to the Comprehensive Healthcare Database at the patient level. The Contractor’s data and services shall fulfill CDC’s minimum requirements, described in the Statement of Work and summarized below. The Contractor shall provide CDC with necessary license(s) for full and complete access to and use of the entire Comprehensive Healthcare Database. The database shall meet the minimum requirements and include the minimum data elements specified in the SOW. The Contractor shall provide the minimum data elements for inpatient and hospital-based encounters within a single, integrated database, including facility data, patient and administrative data, visit-level diagnoses, procedures, medications, devices, and laboratory test data, itemized billing and chargemaster data, general laboratory results data, microbiology laboratory results data, vital measurement data, social determinants of health, and long-term mortality data (optional task). Drug utilization information shall be categorized by the day of stay, and the quantity, strength used, charge, and hospital reported costs. Admission and discharge dates (mm/dd/yyyy) shall be provided in a manner that protects personally identifiable information. Discharge status and discharge disposition, including ability to identify in-hospital deaths, will be provided. The Comprehensive Healthcare Database shall be available historically from 2016 to current; include majority of healthcare encounters that occurred in the most recent 2-3 months; provide ability to track individual patients longitudinally within a hospital or health system; capture detailed medications, procedures, devices, and services provided in the healthcare setting; include weights to generate national inpatient estimates; and come from a representative sample of at least 1,400 geographically diverse non-profit, nongovernmental, and community and teaching hospitals and health systems from rural and urban areas that capture at least 25% of U.S. hospital admissions. The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) data shall be linked based on the patients’ place of residence (not facility location) at the lowest (or smallest) level of geography allowable, align temporally to the patients’ visit, and include the following measures, at a minimum: American Community Survey average household size, median household income, income inequality, average educational level and CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index overall and for four