The V nodes data requirements are user need specific, P nodes data requirements are organizational specific whereas the S node data requirements are administration, system support and management specific.
Time-at-risk for patients was calculated by using bed occupancy data from the administration system.
We combined data from the patient administration system with collected data from the LV-KOS study, an extensive observational survey on reasons for encounter (RFE) and disease patterns in the Danish OOH-PC [ 12].
Different sources of information (Epilepsy Register, paper files from the Epilepsy Service and data from the Patient Administration System – PAS) were combined to collect information about each person's gender, GP, medication, address, telephone number and, where available, fluency in English.
> -wrap-foot> Demograndic and patient location data were extracted from the patient administration system and microbiological data from the laboratory information management system using SQL (structured query language) databases and Excel spreadsheets.
The data request for this study specified routinely collected data to prevent specific data retrieval from the Patient Administration System (PAS).
We used microbiology and patient administration system data from an Oxford hospital to estimate monthly rates of first nosocomial MRSA bacteraemia, and nosocomial MRSA isolation from blood/respiratory/sterile site specimens ("sterile sites") or all clinical samples (screens excluded) in all patients admitted from the community for at least 2 days between April 1998 and June 2006.
In a study from 2006 comparing data from the NAR to the official patient administration system, the data in the NAR were found to be complete (Espehaug et al. 2006).
Data were extracted from the InterQual database and linked by patient medical record number with data from the hospital patient administration system and the rehabilitation service information system [ 22].
Secondly, we verified the quality of patients' data stored in CARDSS by comparing each of the 10 patients' demographic information and therapeutic decisions recorded in the original administration system with the data in CARDSS.
We ask all organisations and residents (or their family or legal guardian) permission to extract data from the nursing-home administration system.
