期刊名称：International Journal of Population Data Science
电子版ISSN：2399-4908
出版年度：2019
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：1-4
DOI：10.23889/ijpds.v4i1.1116
出版社：Swansea University
其他摘要：Administrative databases can be used to measure healthcare performance. This can lead to identification of high-performing practice characteristics and inform innovations. However, a key challenge is that administrative data cannot be easily combined across provinces. Comparable measures must be defined across provinces but operationalized within each province. The purpose of this work is to provide an example of defining a population health concept, osteoporosis screening, and creating measures to examine it across British Columbia, Ontario, and Nova Scotia, Canada. TRANSFORMATION is a study that seeks to improve the science and reporting of Primary Health Care performance. We used administrative data from the above three provinces to examine osteoporosis screening in those aged 65 years and older. Challenges of databases with different data elements and levels of methods development (e.g. macros) can be overcome for purposes of cross-provincial comparisons. Flexibility of analytic methods and frequent communication is needed.
其他关键词：Osteoporosis;Primary Health Care;Population health;Information storage and retrieval;weights and measures
