Comprehensive data collection for each admission to identify factors associated with preventable admissions including data collected from the patient, hospital records and the patients' GP (if available).
The substudies to be undertaken are: Comprehensive data collection for each admission to identify factors associated with preventable admissions including data collected from the patient, hospital records and the patients' GP (if available).
Beyond the obvious, which is the need to collect data to evaluate the efficacy of the policies and the demonstration that multilevel data can be collected around a policy evaluation, there are other benefits of comprehensive data collection.
While the lists emerged thanks to the work of Dutch investigators, the results of the most comprehensive data collection effort on the Afghan conflict remain unpublished.
"Private income generation coupled with the loss of population basis and responsibilities for comprehensive data collection and monitoring will make it almost impossible to take the action needed to tackle inequalities in health and in access to healthcare," they conclude.
Regulators say they are concerned that such comprehensive data collection could be used to profile, score or segment consumers, with the potential to unfairly limit the kinds of financial, insurance, health, education or other marketing offers certain consumers receive.
The FCA said one consequence of the shift to comprehensive data collection could be insurers moving away from pooling large numbers of customers, and towards micro-segmentation of consumers based on how risky they are.
However, some protesters claim that the penalty threatened for states that do not comply – the possibility that the attorney general of the day may withhold up to 10% of their federal law-enforcement funding – may still not be tough enough to ensure comprehensive data collection.
