Sentence examples for use of administrative databases from inspiring English sources

The main limitation of our study is its retrospective design and use of administrative databases, which prevented us from fully assessing HBV history and HBV risk factors.

20 While the use of administrative databases gave our study its main strength allowing us to collect data at a population level it is also a limitation.

30– 33 The use of administrative databases has some limitations.

Use of administrative databases enables population-based epidemiologic studies; however, limitations exist.

Several studies have assessed the use of administrative databases to detect cancer cases [ 12, 36, 37].

Use of administrative databases such as those of Saskatchewan Health has some limitations.

Both univariate and multivariate analyses were used to determine the usefulness of administrative databases for PC research in British Columbia.

Previous drug therapies and hospital admissions for cardiovascular reasons in the 12 months before hospitalization for MI, statin treatment and lipid levels during hospitalization, indication for statin treatment at hospital discharge, and adherence to statin treatment in the following 24 months using an integrated analysis of administrative databases and hospital case records were evaluated.

Milliken et al. [21] used data reported from physicians instead of administrative databases for the outputs and for patient characteristics and they did not include any data on the duration of consultations, and they used FTE counts instead of the numbers of hours spent on direct patient care for the physician inputs.

Our results should be interpreted bearing in mind the strengths and weaknesses of the use of routine administrative databases for inter-hospital comparison of 30-day in-hospital mortality after AMI.

The main strength of our study is the use of comprehensive administrative databases, thereby providing population-based estimates of colorectal cancer screening that pertain to all men aged 50 to 65 years who have been diagnosed with HIV.