We examined administrative and clinical data and 2 clinical data sources in 4 surgical morbidity outcomes.
By examining administrative and technical elites in France and Germany in the 1980s, the paper identifies characteristics that enable these elites to implement policy in some cases, but not in others.
Burdick-Will examined administrative records for more than 24,000 Chicago Public Schools eighth graders entering high school in the fall of 2009.
The article examines administrative law practices at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and is being published as part of an issue of Law & Contemporary Problems on global administrative law.
"They're stuck navigating a complicated and far-flung school system". Burdick-Will examined administrative records for more than 24,000 Chicago Public Schools eighth-graders entering high school in the fall of 2009.
This is particularly evident when examining administrative vaccination coverage (number of doses administered divided by the presumed target population), where rates of over 100% are often reported [ 15].
4 This is in line with a Canadian study examining administrative data on admissions, concluding that many visits to the emergency department by patients with cancer near the end of life may be avoidable.
Roos et al. examined administrative data for the urban population of Manitoba (N = 794,555) and demonstrated a significant inverse socioeconomic gradient for pneumonia hospitalization rates using the same postal code derived neighbourhood-level income measure used in our study [ 28].
A retrospective cohort study examining administrative data from elderly patients who filled a prescription for NSAIDs or acetaminophen [ 41] showed that among patients who did not use aspirin, the risk for hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction/gastrointestinal bleeding was greater with naproxen, but the risk associated with celecoxib was comparable to that with acetaminophen.
Further, if such factors do exist, it would be of great interest to examine what administrative or nursing process adjustments a hospital might take to reduce these rates and thus improve the overall quality of service.
