An Introduction to Health Care Administrative Data

Using administrative data to assess health care outcomes.

community practice were not significantly different 1 year after PTCA or CABG surgery, consistent with a meta-analysis that summarized eight randomized trials comparing these procedures. However, of the three largest randomized trials in the meta-analysis, only the Randomised Intervention Treatment of Angina (RITA) trial enrolled a population that appeared clinically comparable to the observati...

Introduction to circular data

In many diverse scientific fields, the measurements are directions. For instance, a biologist may be measuring the direction of flight of a bird or the orientation of an animal. A series of such observations is called ”directional data”. Since a direction has no magnitude, these can be conveniently represented as points on the circumference of a unit circle centered at the origin or as unit ...

Using an asthma control questionnaire and administrative data to predict health-care utilization.

OBJECTIVE To examine the merits of the Asthma Therapy Assessment Questionnaire (ATAQ) control index together with prior asthma health-care utilization from administrative data in predicting future acute asthma health-care utilization. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. POPULATION A total of 4,788 adult asthma patients aged 17 to 93 years who completed a baseline evaluation and had at least 6 ...

Monitoring Health Care Using National Administrative Data Collections

Introduction to the Minitrack: Health Care Data Management

Health care usually involves a myriad of stakeholders, including patients, direct health care providers, researchers, managed care organizations, and third-party payers. These stakeholders often have considerable differences in objectives, concerns, priorities and constraints, making data management in health care organizations a challenging endeavor. The planning, management, and delivery of h...