To help manage the large amounts of data being generated and processed through the health information system, some programs have implemented the use of electronic patient-level reporting systems.
10 An earlier study investigating healthcare costs relating to obesity at a patient level reported higher rates of inpatient days, higher number and costs of outpatient visits, laboratory usage and overall total costs, with mean annual costs 25% higher in obese individuals (BMI greater than or equal to 30 kg/m) compared with those with a normal BMI (BMI 20 24.9 kg/m).
Herein, we review the literature for patient-level reports of Corynebacterium endocarditis and conducted the first species-specific analysis of risk factors and outcomes in Corynebacterium endocarditis.
It should be noted that the patient-level results reported here are post-hoc analyses, and caution should be used with such data.
Administrative claims data are most useful for providing a picture of the population's health problems and the functioning of the health care system, such as estimates of disease prevalence and services provided to patients (e.g. Canadian Institute for Health Information [ 3]) rather than details of individual, patient level reports of care.
27 The proportion of patients eligible for TKR under different rationing criteria was based on analysis of an extract of patient-level Patient Reported Outcome Measures 1 data on admissions for knee replacement up to 31 December 2010, supplemented where necessary by the baseline characteristics from the KAT sample.
The clinical patient-level study data reported in this article were obtained from studies owned by Pfizer.
We identified 7 registries allowing external access to patient-level data that reported RRT modality and submodality and had comprehensive outcomes data.
Thus, a given patient fell into one of eight possible intervention arms, determined by the clinic randomization and the patient-level mailed report card randomization.
We also observed that patients with lower estradiol levels reported more severe hot flashes (p = 0.02).
Patients at the provincial level reported lower HRQOL than whom attending central clinics.
