This finding is perhaps explained by administrative visits by nurses and occasional clinical consultations by visiting physicians.
Third, we excluded all those encounters, for which no diagnostic codes were provided (administrative visits like phone calls and provision of a prescription, where the patient was not seen by a physician and codes for the encounter were not available).
Administrative ED visit data are not routinely captured in electronic form from all provinces.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) provided administrative patient visit data disaggregated by patient type (i.e., subsidized and non-subsidized) for the six public hospitals and SNEC in Singapore.
Due to the fact that the ICD9-CM codes in the administrative physician visit data do not distinguish between the subtypes of diabetes, it was not possible to identify de novo the subtypes in the Repository using any of the proposed algorithms.
SNEC provided administrative patient visit case mix data, disaggregated by age, eye disease, and ethnicity, as well as data from 2003 to 2013 on the numbers of each type of healthcare worker employed by SNEC, and data on ophthalmologists' work schedule used to estimate the proportion of time spent on clinical work, research, teaching, and administration duties.
The activities were categorized as midwifery clinic (e.g. consultation during pregnancy, ultrasound scan, or 6 weeks postnatal consultation), being on call, intrapartum care, postnatal care visits, hospital visits, administrative tasks, or meetings.
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The data contained within the NPR can mainly be categorised as patient-related data (eg, personal identity number, sex), administrative data (eg, visit date, admission and discharge dates) and medical data (eg, diagnosis and procedure information).
Visit models administrative information such as outpatient/emergency room visit, transfer, consultation, and department information.
Administrative expenses (scheduling visits, calls, letters, etc).
