Administrative health data in Canada: lessons from history
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Administrative health data in Canada: lessons from history
BACKGROUND Health decision-making requires evidence from high-quality data. As one example, the Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) compiles data from the majority of Canadian hospitals to form one of the most comprehensive and highly regarded administrative health databases available for health research, internationally. However, despite the success of this and other administrative health data r...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1472-6947
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-015-0196-9