Judicious statistical use of administrative sources presupposes a considerable amount of information about available data. However, considering the typical operational background of administrative sources, it is little wonder that, in general, statistical data documentation of otherwise valuable information stores leaves much to be desired. Having in mind the apparent difficulties and obstacles...

In the study by Harris et al1 in this issue of Hospital Pediatrics, the authors attempted to compare the identifi cation of central line–associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) by using administrative coding data versus clinical criteria from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that are reported to a voluntary infection control network. The authors demonstrated that more CLABSIs ...

Reference data lies at the heart of the world’s financial systems, be it customer and counterparty data, securities master data or transaction data. Few organizations know the real cost of poor data and inefficient data management. Without a high degree of reference data standardization, the securities industry could not process the ever-growing number of trades nor meet the demanding client se...

Data processing techniques are becoming more innovative as the amount of data grows. Here we are exploring such techniques to process big data one is the traditional RDBMS approach and the other distributed approach. We came across certain advantages and disadvantages of both the approaches. RDBMS is a very highly used technology for data processing by various organizations and replacing it wit...