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[What do We Mean by Secondary Data? - A Keynote Contribution to the Terminological Classification and Definition]
Holger Gothe1,2,3, Peter Ihle4, Enno Swart5
1Versorgungsforschung, IGES Institut GmbH, Berlin, Deutschland.
Abstract:
Data are both material and product for health services research. As a "substrate" or starting point for health-related analyses, they have gained immense importance in recent decades. Data are an essential raw material for the assessment of services in the health care system, for its control and development. In everyday scientific life and in research work that uses this raw material, the meaning of the term "data" - especially "secondary data" - is often neglected. This article aims to shed more light on the context of meaning of the two terms and to attempt to classify the term "secondary data" terminologically.
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