But in an age when algorithms can trade on global stock markets or write a newspaper story, aspects of commonwealth and state service delivery that were once labour-intensive – for example, the collation of taxation and social security data – are now computerised and automated.
Clinical guidelines for the prevention of coronary heart disease are important not only because they influence practice but also because they present a highly cited collation of evidence for a multitude of risk markers. 1 2 For example, the European primary prevention guidelines published in 2003 1 mentioned more than 40 risk markers and have been cited more than 800 times.
There is probably also scope to improve the recording and collation of the results of conservation interventions, particularly the more experimental approaches, for example through the conservationevidence.com site.
"They are principally used by the department for the compilation, validation, and collation of statistics and to provide accessible information to citizens in support of, for example, the transparency agenda".
For example, for the health system M&E function (which entails data collection, collation, analysis, and use (17)), administrative integration might mean that horizontal managers exercise authority in coordinating collection and collation of disease-specific data and refer to vertical managers for technical advice on how to use these data for management.
Many examples for this have been given by Janssens and van Duijn (2008), and one systematic collation of evidence on genetic tests is given by the Evaluation of Genomic Applications in Practice and Prevention (EGAPP) initiative (Teutsch et al. 2009).
In practice this proved impractical within the timeframe due to the collation of large volume of data from the recovery profiles that this exercise required.
Collation of prescription data of two or more anti-tuberculosis drugs increases case ascertainment of tuberculosis.
Concurrent with this collation of existing information sources, new initiatives should be piloted that strive to strengthen market data availability: for example initiatives could seek to improve private provider participation in health information systems, or experiment with new ways to capture data on specific geographic health markets within a country.
In the past acquiring data was expensive: it required questionnaires and manual collation of information.
E. J. invites us to the First Sufi Church of Christ for a modest collation of baloney and Armagnac.
