Specifically, we explore the community-wide effects of two statewide initiatives in North Carolina on gender differences in academic outcomes in Grades 3 to 5, using administrative student data and information on variation in program availability across counties and over time.
With increased access to sources of administrative and management information system data covering multiple time points, we urge researchers to help social policy and program decision-makers appropriately model and produce more accurate information on program outcomes.
With increasing frequency, researchers are turning to administrative claims data to ascertain information about patient outcomes and hospital quality [ 12- 19].
The KID is a database of administrative discharge data without clinical information beyond what can be captured in ICD-9-CM diagnosis and procedure codes.
In administrative claims data, however, clinical information is extracted from ICD-9-CM diagnosis and various procedure coding systems that are used by physicians to support claims for reimbursement.
For more information on administrative register data sources, their quality, accuracy, and uses, see, for example, Røed and Raaum (2003).
To investigate the nature and potential implications of under-reporting of morbidity information in administrative hospital data.
Limitations include the use of administrative claims data containing only limited information about the quality of primary care services, and reliance on self-reported data for some predictor variables.
Using administrative Danish data, we exploit an information shock for obstetricians that sharply altered CS rates for breech babies.
Alternatively, administrative discharge data collected from billing information are based on confirmed clinical diagnoses and are often not available until a year or more after the visit.
