«With all the fervor around the potential for big data, it's critical to keep in mind the substantial differences across databases in content, coding systems and practices, duration of available medical history and follow - up time, quality
of outcome information, and clinical practice patterns.»
Dr. Fernandez said that because clinical decision - making in older patients can be fairly complex, the long - term
patient outcome information from the STS - CMS linked data certainly will prove beneficial.
He advocated for state databases containing college and
career outcome information of public school graduates, so parents can see the life outcomes of former students of their children's current or future schools.
Their response ignores the egregious errors in implementation that we identified, namely the fact that they threw out a majority of the state observations,
miscoded outcome information, and completely confused the sequence of test introduction and achievement measurement in several states.
Financial data is also on the list, and we recently completed a projecxt to start marrying HR data, teacher evaluation data, etc, with student outcome information
NSW meningococcal disease notification data since the promulgation of the Public Health Act in 1991 were sourced from HOIST (
Health Outcomes Information and Statistical Toolkit, NSW Health).
The objectives of this study were to determine the foreknowledge of lily toxicity of owners of cats that were exposed to lilies and to obtain historical, clinical and
outcome information on the exposures.
NCI is establishing a national database to house and integrate genomic information from tumors with clinical response data (e.g., tumor shrinkage) and
outcomes information (e.g., length of survival) as a resource for scientists, health care professionals, and patients.
Four of the 64 dogs in the control group (Group 3) were lost to follow - up after restaging, and
outcome information was not available.
Owned by hospitals, health systems and other providers, Premier maintains the nations most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and
outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network.