Cancer experts agreed that primary care follow-up would increase their availability for acute oncological care, but reduce information on late effects.
By doing so, these meta-analyses are based on reduced information, thus neglecting the potential diagnostic information contained in continuous test results.
This approach reduces information exchanges on CSI among BSs and RNC as only second-order statistics (which may be slowly time-varying) are needed.
However, as Lewis (2011) argued, whether information disclosure through signalling strategies reduces information asymmetries depends on two parameters: the costs associated to private information disclosure and the presence of some institutional framework allowing contractual enforcement.
A considerable bulk of the empirical studies on information sharing has been oriented towards the impact of creditors' rights to more data on the one hand and the impact of reducing information asymmetry among creditors on the other.
Other deals are structured so that HCL gets paid on reducing information technology cost per employee, essentially a "success fee" for cost-cutting.
Validity of medication records might be reduced, because information on drug treatment two weeks after discharge was obtained by telephone.
In the latter case, when data are reduced to information on the proportion of females that are pregnant or lactating, statistical testing can be carried out, but precise estimation of the mean and variance of birth dates is no longer possible.
Collaborative health care networks, medication management and IT-support with electronic health records can reduce incomplete information on the side of the General Practitioner GPP) and other physician(s) involved in the treatment of an elderly patient.
