According to a new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, estimates of vaccination coverage can be significantly improved by combining administrative data with survey data.
This paper describes the creation of the Canadian Pediatric End-Stage Renal Disease database, a new database formed by combining administrative data from multiple sources to generate a large and rich, longitudinal dataset of Canadian pediatric ESRD patients.
Thus, combining administrative data from work-lives with Medicare data may provide an excellent alternative for investigating the effects of exposures or treatments over the life course.
A 2003 study conducted by Save the Children examined the impact of ECD services on children, families, and communities, combining administrative data from ECD centers and schools with qualitative data collected from parents, teachers, and other stakeholders (Save the Children 2003).
To choose programme participants and to simulate programme effects, we combine administrative data from the Swiss pension system (first pillar) with baseline survey data.
Of the seven (21%) studies that used longitudinal methods, four (57%) used administrative data, one combined administrative and survey data, and two (29%) used surveys alone.
For example, the Sentinel Initiative, which was launched by the US Food and Drug Administration in May 2008, aims to monitor safety of medical products by combining existing data sources such as administrative medical claims data to support research on a population of 100 million people by 2012.
The methodology proposed is based on the reconstruction of patterns of care at individual level by combining different data sources, surveillance data and administrative data, in areas covered by cancer registration.
Our sample consists of students at the London School of Economics, and our data combine administrative records with the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey.
The data-set combines detailed administrative data on occupational histories with information obtained from annual self-completion questionnaires completed by participants since 1989.
The questionnaire information was then combined with administrative data about the same treatment episode from the Norwegian Patient Register (NPR).
