Only eight of 19 endoscopy units submitted routinely collected, service-related data.
The availability of routinely collected service-related endoscopy data from NHS endoscopy units has never been quantified.
This secondary analysis demonstrates the potential of working with routinely collected service delivery data, especially when steps have been taken to strengthen the health information management system.
These routinely collected service delivery data from the HIV-exposed infant register database with updates through June 2007 were de-identified and analyzed using SAS version 9.1.
Table 1 shows a breakdown of the types of routinely collected service-related data submitted by both Intervention and Control sites.
Of the eight sites submitting routinely collected service-related data, only three were Intervention sites, whilst the other five were Control sites.
This study, in an inner-city urban area, collected service, clinical and demographic information in a defined geographical area, and followed well-established methods.
It was designed to test the availability of routinely collected, service-related data in each unit to determine which units were in the position to immediately analyse and evaluate their services.
These included studies reporting qualitative methods, quantitative and mixed method analysis of routinely collected service data, clinical trials, service evaluations, and reviews of any/all of the above, with an additional interpretative element (eg, the development of 'third order' constructs).
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