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Data quality in an information-rich environment: Canada as an example.

Leslie L Roos1, Sumit Gupta, Ruth-Ann Soodeen

  • 1Manitoba Centre for Health Policy, Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, 4th Floor Brodie Centre, Room 408, 727 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, R3E 3P5, Canada. Leslie_Roos@cpe.umanitoba.ca

Canadian Journal on Aging = La Revue Canadienne Du Vieillissement
|August 5, 2005
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Canadian administrative data quality is satisfactory for registries, hospital abstracts, and physician claims. Further primary data collection and expanded pharmaceutical data checks are recommended for integrated health systems.

Area of Science:

  • Health Services Research
  • Data Quality Assessment
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Integrated health information systems require high-quality administrative data.
  • Evaluating the quality of existing Canadian administrative data is crucial for system development.
  • Existing studies on Canadian administrative data quality are numerous but require synthesis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review and evaluate the quality of available administrative data across Canadian provinces.
  • To identify data quality requirements for building integrated health information systems.
  • To compare quality measurement approaches, including record linkage versus record re-abstraction.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of 49 original studies on Canadian administrative data.

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  • Structured summarization of data from registries, hospital abstracts, physician claims, and prescription drugs.
  • Explicit comparison of record linkage and record re-abstraction methods for quality assessment.

    • Main Results:

    • Registries, hospital abstracts, and physician files generally demonstrate satisfactory data quality.
    • No systematic variation in data quality was observed among Canadian provinces.
    • Record linkage can often substitute for more resource-intensive record re-abstraction.

    Conclusions:

    • While generally satisfactory, improvements in Canadian administrative data quality are needed, particularly in primary data collection for residence and longitudinal follow-up.
    • Pharmaceutical data quality checks show promise and warrant expansion.
    • Expanding the use of administrative data to study health outcomes for chronic conditions is feasible, underscoring the importance of data quality.