No such routine centralized data collection existed before 2001 and therefore the hospital computerized discharge summaries between 1994 and 2000 were searched.
A range of 'in-house' solutions to automated data collection exist but are not readily available for use perhaps for cost or proprietary reasons.
No systematic data collection exist in Switzerland to evaluate primary care functioning, thus this study is one of the rare occasion to objectively assess the evolution of PCPs' profiles.
The network observes these milestones: The aim of the network's quality cycle is clearly specified, it follows a concrete concept, the items and how they are measured are well defined, a well-developed data collection plan exists and the data are analysed both statically and analytically.
Many types of data collection protocols exist; they can be grouped into the following categories [1]: roadside intercepts, telephone interviews, mail-out/mail-back, combined telephone and mail-back, personal interviews, internet, focus and stakeholder groups, commercial vehicle trip diaries, Global Positioning System (GPS) vehicle tracking, license plate match, and administrative surveys.
Simple, cost-effective techniques for disability data collection now exist, including a simple set of questions that can be used in census data collection and take only 75 seconds to complete.
Several data collection techniques exist (Lethbridge et al. [2005]).
Such cutting-off-one's-nose-to-spite-one's-face-ism appears to be the sin qua non of modern conservatism, and is of a piece with recent conservative efforts to try to kill off the American Community Survey -- a crucial government data collection that has existed in various manifestations since 1850.
As noted in earlier studies, similar limitations driven by variability in data collection protocols still exist in the data describing antagonistic networks [29], [50], [51].
The difficulties in accurate suicide data collection and reporting existed due to less specific classification of suicide causes from deaths by ICD Code [ 34].
