The phrase "administrative indicators" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to management, evaluation, or performance measurement within an organization or administrative setting.
Example: "The report highlighted several administrative indicators that suggest areas for improvement in our workflow processes."
Alternatives: "management metrics" or "operational benchmarks".
Too often, quality is equated with structural indicators (e.g., staff-to-child ratio, group size, accreditation, staff credentials), administrative indicators (e.g., record keeping, compliance with regulations), and resources available (square footage per child, presence of "learning centers," equipment and supplies).
As such, mixed qualitative and quantitative methods for identifying salient stressors across spatially heterogeneous domains, and for validating administrative indicators against community- and individual-level stress experience (e.g., [ 41]), are important for improving reliability of administrative indicators for environmental epidemiology.
We identified 29 administrative indicators that may provide information on exposure to social stressors collected by NYC government agencies and the US Census Bureau (Table 1, Figure 2).
We included Census-derived area-level SEP and racial composition indicators, to examine how these indicators might co-vary with administrative indicators of social stressors.
These interpretation challenges are not, however, unique to this analysis, as administrative indicators are widely employed in social and environmental epidemiology.
Claims for a gait-assistance device or orthopedic surgery [ 31, 32] during the study period were used to assess musculoskeletal health in the absence of validated administrative indicators of RA severity (code lists available upon request).
While asthma guidelines exist for FPs, the emphasis on evidence-based clinical care often focuses on the medications prescribed for people with asthma and less so on health administrative data indicators such as spirometry testing and emergency room use as used in this study [ 25].
Other investigators have devised administrative claims-based indicators, [ 21, 22] and chart review-based indicators for hospitals, [ 23] and ambulatory care sites, [ 24] in efforts to compare hospital performance or health plan performance.
Several studies have reported associations between respiratory outcomes in children and a range of self-reported, administrative or geographical indicators of traffic pollution.
In particular: insufficient levels of resources may require administrative decisions; adequacy indicators can be improved through technical actions, although feedback of audit information alone may be sufficient to bring about the desired correction; failures to achieve clinical standards warrant more structured and direct approaches, such as the professional retraining of colposcopists.
In addition, we will collect administrative data for selected indicators.
