For all its flaws and excesses, al-Shabab did, at least manage to exercise full administrative and functional control over most areas under its control.
MIM participated in conception and design, acquisition of administrative and functional data, analyses and interpretation of data.
One objective of the reform was to improve coordination on administrative and functional levels across different sectors in the health care system with the overall aim of improving conditions for coordinated patient pathways.
Although it is, to our knowledge, the first study of its kind, to characterize the practitioner composition and the administrative, functional and business, organization of CAM practices either in the United States or abroad, it only included DC, LAc, and LMT practices.
The investigators demonstrated improvement in the C statistic with the addition of laboratory and functional cognitive measures to administrative data.
Administrative data do not contain the rich clinical and functional information that is available in clinical assessments, but assessment data contains less information about disease diagnoses, which are essential to characterize patient risk, than administrative data.
Susser et al [ 19] compared the predictive validity of self report and administrative CCI using subsequent health services utilization rates and functional decline as outcomes.
31 Likewise, our reliance on administrative data limited our ability to assess other important measures of orthopaedic outcomes, including patient satisfaction and functional status that are not captured by administrative data.
The paper highlights the East Asian region's long experience in integrated coastal management (ICM) implementation, which has provided the foundation for advancing geographic and functional scaling up to cover wider geographic and administrative boundaries and ecosystems, respectively.
But it also incorporates new functional needs – financial, administrative, and procurement – and ties in the needs of future users during operation.
However, observational studies have been fraught with issues of confounding related to the degree of frailty and functional decline, measures of which are not included in standard administrative health care databases that are used to calculate vaccine effectiveness.
