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Tanvir Turin Chowdhury1,2, Brenda R Hemmelgarn3
1Department of Family Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. chowdhut@ucalgary.ca.
Abstract:
Health-care systems require reliable information on which to base health-care planning and make decisions, as well as to evaluate their policy impact. Administrative data, predominantly captured for non-research purposes, provide important information about health services use, expenditures, and clinical outcomes and may be used to assess quality of care. With increased digitalization and accessibility of administrative databases, this data is more readily available for health service research purposes, aiding evidence-based decision making. This chapter discusses the utility of administrative data for population-based studies of health and health care.
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