Nevertheless, they also concluded that ascertaining information from prior admissions provided little improvement in the explanatory power of risk adjustment methods.
We used data from the Skåne Healthcare Register (SHR), which contains routine prospectively ascertained information from computerised medical records, as well as from administrative application sources, on all healthcare in Region Skåne, the southernmost part of Sweden (total population 2008=1 214 758, ages ≥18 years=9 64 237).
Five-point Likert scale questions, with responses ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree, were used to ascertain information for constructing individual-level baseline and outcome indicators.
Likert scale questions at five levels, ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree, were used to ascertain information for constructing outcome indicators.
However, it is critical to directly ascertain information on such barriers from HIV-positive people who are not under care, because their views could be more relevant to the design of targeted interventions to improve HIV care utilization.
We ascertained information on deaths from respective entries in the Medicaid eligibility files as well as through linkage with the Social Security Death Master File.
In sub-analyses limited to cancer patients and their matched comparison group diagnosed while DCR records were available (<2004), we ascertained information on cancer site from the DCR.
In comparing the results of the case control studies using birth certificate data with those who ascertained information about perinatal events from mothers retrospectively, there is no clear difference in the strength of association between TS and various perinatal risk factors.
All studies, apart from GAZEL, 34 35 ascertained information on incident cancer events during the follow-up from national cancer or death registries and hospital admissions registries.
