From a public health perspective, studies based on administrative databases, like the present one, offer several advantages, including a prompt, easily updated, and representative picture of monitored cohorts with highly generalizable results.
Studies based on administrative databases, like the present one, offer several advantages, including a prompt, easily updated, and representative picture of the monitored cohorts for a prolonged duration of observation, with highly generalizable results.
However, as in other studies based on administrative databases, there are some inherent limitations.
It shares the limitations of other studies based on administrative databases.
However, our results, based on administrative databases, might be affected by lack of accuracy and completeness in coding.
That meta-analysis included six studies: two secondary analyses of RCTs and four based on administrative databases.
In a review of available literature, nearly all studies of obesity using larger databases are not based on administrative databases alone.
Firstly, this work was based on administrative databases that do not contain information on morbidity or investigations performed during the ED stay.
The study was based on administrative databases maintained by three local health units (LHU) located in three Italian regions: Lombardy; Emilia-Romagna; and Campania.
Previous analyses based on administrative databases have also established that surgeons with high volume workloads could provide better care in thyroid surgery.
